Thought Leadership

On July 27, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law health care trailer bill AB 133 which aims to transform healthcare for Californians by expanding Medi-Cal eligibility, investing in behavioral health initiatives, and requiring providers and health plans to share data with each other by 2024. AB 133 also requires the creation of a framework…

Since its inception in 2004, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has delivered outsized results for its size. This subdivision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a budget of around $60 million and a team of approximately 150 people — small by federal standards —…

By Dr. Sara Pastoor, Director of Primary Care Advancement, Elation Health, and Adam Harrison, Chief Growth Officer, Manifest MedEx As California reopens, ambulatory medical practices across the state are gearing up for the surge of catch-up care with their patients. There’s a lot of work to do: Californians fell as much as 50% behind on…

By Claudia Williams, Special to CalMatters Claudia Williams is CEO of Manifest MedEx, a nonprofit health data network, Claudia.williams@manifestmedex.org. Disrupting the health care status quo takes courage. Recently, Assemblymember Jim Wood, who chairs the Health Committee, stood up boldly for a statewide infrastructure for sharing health data to strengthen public health, improve equity, transform Medi-Cal, and…

Take an academic, a technologist, a doctor, and a nonprofit leader and what do you get? Agreement that 2021 could be the breakthrough year for interoperability in healthcare. In a lively conversation at the end of last year for the Fierce Health IT Virtual Series, “The future of interoperability—will we ever get there?”, we were…

We are so excited to be welcoming Adam Harrison as Manifest MedEx’s first Chief Growth Officer. An athenahealth alum, he brings more than 18 years of experience in leading high-performing sales teams. Adam’s role includes adding new California provider and health plan participants to receive clinical and claims data across MX’s network of more than…

The Covid-19 pandemic has proven the dire need for the health-care industry to share health-care data in a secure, private way. Health information exchanges help providers move past their data sharing fears and toward interoperability, says Deven McGraw, co-founder of Ciitizen and a former HHS health information privacy official. This global pandemic is one more…

American healthcare has so many advantages: cutting-edge vaccine development, global experts in public health, massive gains in our technology and interoperability, while at the same time, Americans are suffering and dying because of a crisis of trust. The devastating health outcomes of distrust and a broken health contract this year have been made even clearer…

Too many Californians have learned first-hand that one of the most frightening things about COVID-19 is how it robs you of your ability to breathe — let alone speak. In a medical emergency, every second counts and every bit of information matters. But what happens when we can’t communicate because we’re unconscious and gasping for…