Company's experiences can help support nationwide implementation of HIEs through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- As support for the integration of health care and technology heightens through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Shared Health, one of the largest public/private medical data-sharing initiatives of its kind in the U.S., has already shown success in implementing and supporting a statewide health information exchange (HIE) in the state of Tennessee.
The Shared Health-supported HIE manages the data of more than 2.6 million patients, has more than 2,500 clinical users and has already shown a 17 percent improvement in efficiencies across clinical care.
While many HIEs house, store and share data, Shared Health's HIE technology enables more than just data sharing. It offers physicians the ability to analyze the data to provide better patient treatment and care, improved health outcomes and less duplicate medical testing and procedures, all reducing overall health care costs.
While working with Tennessee's Medicaid Program, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee commercial customers, large self-funded employers and the State of Tennessee's uninsured programs, Shared Health's technology has offered powerful web-based clinical tools such as ePrescribing, Clinical Decision Support (CDS), clinical health records, population management analytics, chronic condition management registries, case management, immunization records and child wellness (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment - EPSDT) registries to physicians and hospitals across the state.
Shared Health's technology is also available to hospital systems, offering the ability to connect with and integrate owned and affiliated community physicians. By developing a community medical network in which patient medical information can be
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