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EHealth In Northern Kentucky :

EHealth In Northern Kentucky :. Keith Hepp CFO, VP Business Development khepp@healthbridge.org. HealthBridge Timeline. 1997: Funded by 5 Health Systems & 2 Insurers 2000: Purchased Axolotl Clinical Messaging 2003: Public health/physician alerts added 2004: Syndromic Surveillance added

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EHealth In Northern Kentucky :

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  1. EHealth In Northern Kentucky: Keith Hepp CFO, VP Business Development khepp@healthbridge.org

  2. HealthBridge Timeline • 1997: Funded by 5 Health Systems & 2 Insurers • 2000: Purchased Axolotl Clinical Messaging • 2003: Public health/physician alerts added • 2004: Syndromic Surveillance added • 2006: Community–wide electronic lab ordering • 2006: With Northrop Grumman consortium on NHIN demonstration

  3. Drake Health Alliance Mercy St. Elizabeth Children’s TriHealth Health System Content Available To HealthBridge Users Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge Network

  4. HealthBridge Clinical Messaging System Overview Mercy Health Partners TriHealth Health Alliance St. Elizabeth Cincinnati Children’s Centralized Printing Mail Fax Electronic MD EMRs Health Systems – 17 Hospitals Lab Results, Radiology Reports, Transcribed Reports, ADT Transactions Community Standards Ancillary Data Feeds LabOne -HL-7 Data -MD Directory -Patient Index -HIPAA Access Audit Physician Access to Clinical Results MD Dictation Legacy Result Delivery Public Health Health Alerts Clinical Messaging Servers Fax Server RODS Lab Syndromic Surveillance

  5. Final View- Used To Access All Electronic Results for a Practice

  6. Key Learnings • Governance is key – the closer the decision to the community, the easier the collaboration • Some portions of healthcare needs to remain local (disease management) and some are national in nature (prescriptions) • To be self sustaining, RHIO’s need to look for areas other than just messaging • Too many RHIO’s do not have credible plans for sustainability. Grants for seed funding is fine but operations should be self sustaining

  7. Key Learnings • Flexibility of technology important due to varying skills in the physician office • Logical RHIO area may be across state boundaries • “EMR Lite” provides a flexible way to start electronic communications and moves physician offices in right direction • Currently, EMR’s can create islands of information again • Process, process, process…

  8. 2006 Projects • Medication history at the ED • Automated reporting of Class A diseases • Improvements to Case Management • Diabetes and other disease registries • Automation of Bridges to Excellence reporting and analysis • Automation of hospital/health plan reporting

  9. EHealth In Northern Kentucky: Keith Hepp CFO, VP Business Development khepp@healthbridge.org

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