HEAL Awardee Summaries - Central Region
- County Medical Societies of Cayuga, Chenango, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida and Oswego
- Rochester Regional Health Information Organization
- Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association Connected Community (GRIPA)
- Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York (HAC-CNY)
- Health Information Technology Alliance of Syracuse (HITAS)
- United Health Services Hospitals/Southern Tier HealthLink
County Medical Societies of Cayuga, Chenango, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida and Oswego
Contact: Kathleen Dyman(kdyman@medsocieties.com)
Project Summary: This project will implement and link EHR systems for 11 medical practices, laboratories and local hospitals.
Rochester Regional Health Information Organization
Contact: Ted Kremer, MPH, Executive Director (tkremer@grrhio.org)
Website: http://www.grrhio.org/
Project Summary: Rochester RHIO is a secure online resource developed by and for doctors, hospital systems, health insurers and privacy officers in the nine-county Greater Rochester area. Its purpose is to share essential patient information quickly and accurately with authorized health care providers. In a medical emergency, the Rochester RHIO can save lives by offering providers immediate access to crucial patient health data. It also improves routine medical care–doctors can spend less time hunting down test results and health information, and more time diagnosing and treating patients. Data exchanged as part of its HEAL 1 project include lab and radiology data, medication history, and insurance eligibility information.
Rochester RHIO’s HEAL 5 project includes several additions to their existing services. These include:
- Patients access to data through a patient portal where patients can set consent for access to their medical information by physician group, link to and exchange data with the personal health record (PHR) of their choice, and annotate their medication history data available through the HIE.
- Emergency care provider access, by developing systems that enable 9-1-1, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Departments (ED), and definitive care providers access to and/or update of HIE patient-centric medical information.
- Inter-RHIO Interoperability, by demonstrating exchange of patient-centric information between RHIOs (Buffalo and GRIPA)
- Medically complicated patient data, by developing systems to enable Point of Entry (POE), Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), and Advanced Directives (AD) systems to exchange patient health information among disparate clinicians, other authorized entities and patients in real time while ensuring security and privacy.
- Medicaid and underserved data: Rochester will also provide Medicaid medical history to Medicaid providers to enable them to provide coordinated care.
Key Stakeholders: Large community employers through the Rochester Business Alliance: Bausch & Lomb, Jasco, Kodak, M&T, Paychecks, RIT, Wegmans, Xerox; Health Insurers: Excellus, Preferred Care, Aetna; Physician Community: Rochester Independent Practice Association, Monroe County Medical Society; Hospital Systems: URMC/Strong Health, Unity Health; Lakeside Health System; Clifton Springs Hospital, Thompson Health Systems; Public Health: Monroe County DOH, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency. Active Participants (Area Labs, Radiology Centers, Hospitals, Private Practice Physicians, Community Health Centers, Long Term Care Facilities)
Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association Connected Community (GRIPA)
Contact: Jim Garnham (James.Garnham@viahealth.org)
Website: http://www.gripaconnect.com/
Project Summary: GRIPA is connecting its member physicians into a clinically integrated network, with the goal to foster improvement in the quality and efficiency of patient care and an improved practice experience for its member community physicians. This is achieved through the use of evidence-based guidelines, tools and incentives to follow those guidelines, and the sharing of real-time clinical data across an integrated primary- and specialty-care network. Its physicians have the ability to share relevant, patient-specific information among themselves, access clinical information on their patients across the healthcare system, and use technology to increase the speed and efficiency of ordering, reviewing, and acting upon diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Key Stakeholders: CENTRAL - Wegmans Pharmacies; ACM Medical Laboratories; Borg Imaging; Via Health; Preferred Care.
Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York (HAC-CNY)
Contact: Nancy Smith(nsmith@hac-cny.org)
Website: http://www.hac-cny.org
Project Summary: HAC-CNY is a Syracuse-based multi-stakeholder collaborative of hospital, physicians, empoyers, and insurers with a broad mission to foster access to high quality, affordable heath care in Central New York. As part of this mission, HAC-CNY is facilitating the development of an independent clinical information exchange for Central New York.
Through HEAL 5, HAC-CNY is partnering with the Southern Tier HealthLink (STHL) RHIO, to create a core interoperable clinical HIE linking four hospitals, four physician pratices, a community health clinic, and a major laboratory that will support increased efficiency and improved quality of health care. More information on their joint project can be found below in the STHL summary and on the HAC-CNY website.
Health Information Technology Alliance of Syracuse (HITAS)
Contact: Chuck Fennell (chuck.fennell@sjhsyr.org)
Project Summary: HITAS’ project – “HITAS – Promoting EHR Adoption for the Underserved in Central New York” – is an opportunity to provide 21st century patient care to a large segment of its community’s Medicaid and underserved population. It will seek to provide an interoperable EHR for the clinicians who provide primary care in these centers and their associated practices. HEAL 5 funding offers an opportunity to connect this impoverished and underserved population with the same technology that is becoming more and more available to patients (and subsequently, their providers) with greater financial resources.
Southern Tier HealthLink
Contact: Christina Galanis, Executive Director (cgalanis@sthlny.com)
Website: http://www.sthlny.com
Project Summary: STHL in its HEAL 1 project has been developing a regional portal that gives clinicians access to comprehensive, shared, real-time electronic patient records, containing patient-centric information including: demographics, medications, allergies, immunizations, PACS images and problem lists. Its project goals also include consumer empowerment and the development of an interoperable personal health record, through which consumers can access their own medical records.
For its HEAL 5 project, STHL is partnering with the Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York (HAC-CNY), Auburn Memorial Hospital and Cortland Regional Hospital, to create an interoperable regional clinical HIE linking hospitals, physicians, patients, employers, pharmacies, radiology centers, payers and laboratories that will support increased efficiency and improved quality of health care across Central New York.
The project will build on STHL’s existing project to create an expanded Southern Tier HealthLink HIE with a broad regional reach and greater technical support capacity. A total of additional 255 stakeholders will be linked into Southern Tier HealthLink including: 4 urban hospitals, 5 physician practices, 1 Lab Alliance, 3 rural hospitals 1 county health clinic, 1 community health center and 240 physicians with existing EHRs.
The STHL services that will be expanded and made available to existing and new participants include: EHR adoption, connectivity and support, community wide referral management tools, enhanced medication profiles with integration to the NYS Medicaid System, interoperability between several patient centric Personal Health Records (PHRs) through the community wide HIE, and access to community wide PACS images.
Key Stakeholders: United Health Services Hospitals, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Park Avenue Associates in Radiology, United Medical Associates, Chenango Memorial Hospital, Delaware Valley Hospital, Broome County Free Clinic, Orthopedic Associates, Southern Tier Imaging, Southern Tier Neurosurgical Group, Professional Home Care, Endwell Family Physicians, Twin Tier Home Health, Department of Health - Broome, Department of Health - Tioga, Department of Health - Delaware, Department of Health - Chenango Ideal Nursing Home, Lourdes at Home and Lourdes Hospice, Mohawk Valley Plan, Rural Health Network, Excellus
