Thought Leadership

California has set the right goals for the years ahead, including initiatives focused on reducing health disparities, effectively delivering care for our most vulnerable residents, and improving mental health services. As one of the nation’s most populous states, with a history of leading innovation and rapidly growing Medicaid enrollment, all eyes are on us to…

Manifest MedEx is a proud member of a widespread coalition that is requesting that the 2022 California state budget include funding to accelerate Medi-Cal provider data sharing and build the data infrastructure needed to support CalAIM and meet AB 133 requirements. Coalition members include: Read the coalition’s letter to Governor Newsom requesting funding for performance…

“…and then there’s the all-important question: How are you going to pay for it?”  — David Ford, Vice President of Health Information Technology, California Medical Association (CMA)  Here are our two main takeaways from the January meeting of the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Stakeholder Advisory Group:  Where’s the money?  The most interesting and pointed exchange…

Through its California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program, one of California’s goals is to “improve quality outcomes, reduce health disparities, and transform the delivery system through value‑based initiatives, modernization, and payment reform” for its Medicaid program (known as Medi-Cal). California is not the only state coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic with substantial plans to…

Funding and incentives to increase data exchange among top areas of discussion “Systems are not enough. We’ve got to make it a requirement to have incentive programs to support, not just adopt, actual data exchange.” – Jonah Frohlich, Manatt Health This week, the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) held their fourth Data Exchange…

It’s a match that works. Like peanut butter and chocolate or Batman and Robin, some things just belong together. Health plans and health information exchanges (HIEs) are quickly becoming one of the most dynamic duos in the healthcare landscape. Like many great partnerships, there was a bit of a will-they or won’t-they history to the…

Urgency and ability to operationalize are two key areas of concern “My worst fear is that we create a really nice report that doesn’t achieve exchange and doesn’t reach the goals we’ve indicated.”  – Claudia Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Manifest MedEx  As John Ohanian, Chief Data Officer, California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) kicked off the third Stakeholder Advisory…

The kids are not all right. The more dangerous Delta COVID variant is far from the only health crisis our children are facing. Reports are showing that children are struggling with mental health, food insecurity, and obesity and backsliding on routine vaccinations. In California, we likely don’t know today the full extent of the pediatric health crisis because so…