Percent of WNY practices who participate with HEALTHeLINK:
85%
Total number of patient consent forms signed:
1,145,933
Total results available through HEALTHeLINK:
230,000,000
Total number of patient record look up queries in HEALTHeLINK from January-August 2018:
2,398,737
Total number of practices sending data to HEALTHeLINK from their EHR:
301
Total number of practices getting results delivered from HEALTHeLINK into their EHR:
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AUM OBGYN Associates
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| Century Airport Pediatrics |
| David P. Kowalski MD |
| David S. Clifford MD |
| ECMC Ambulatory Surgery Center |
| ECMC Anticoagulation Care Clinic |
| ECMC Behavioral Health Primary Care |
| ECMC Cardio Thoracic Surgery Clinic |
ECMC Center for Cardiovascular Care
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| ECMC COEM |
| ECMC Dental IDS |
| ECMC Dental/Oncology |
| ECMC Dermatology |
| ECMC Endocrinology |
| ECMC Family Health Center |
| ECMC Gastroenterology |
| ECMC Gastroenterology/Hepatic |
| ECMC Grider Family Health Center |
| ECMC Head and Neck |
| ECMC Infectious Disease |
| ECMC Internal Medicine Center |
| ECMC Neurology |
| ECMC Neurosurgery |
| ECMC Oncology |
| ECMC Orthopaedics |
| ECMC Otolaryngology |
| ECMC Podiatry |
| ECMC Pulmonology |
| ECMC Rehabilitation Medicine |
| ECMC Rehabilitation Medicine/Driver Evaluation |
| ECMC Renal/Hypertension |
| ECMC Rheumatology |
| ECMC Surgery |
| ECMC Urology |
| ECMC VIP Primary Care |
| ECMCC |
| Elderwood at Lancaster |
| Excelsior Othopedics |
| Jahangir Koleini MD |
| Jamestown Primary Care |
| Kenneth Zimmerman MD |
| Niagara Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine |
| Northwest Buffalo Community Health Care Center |
| Olean Medical Group |
| Summit Pediatrics |
| YJH Medical |
For a complete listing of data sources and participating practices,
click here
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Top Users of HEALTHeLINK's Patient Record Look-up
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- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
- Kaleida Health System
- Roswell Park
- Catholic Health System
- Erie County Medical Center
Physician Practice Users
- General Physician
- Dent Neurologic Institute
- WNY Urology Associates
- UB Neurosurgery
- Trinity Medical Cardiology
- David Avino, MD
- Landmark Medical Associates
- UBMD Internal Medicine
- Windsong Radiology
- Gastroenterology Associates
Other Participant Type Users
- Greater Buffalo United Accountable Health Network
- Health Home Partners of WNY
- UNYTS
- Erie County Department of Health
- Health Homes of Upstate New York
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HEALTHeLINK at SHIEC Annual Conference
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HEALTHeLINK Executive Director Dan Porreca at SHIEC.
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Members of HEALTHeLINK's leadership team presented at the 2018 Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) annual conference on August 20 in Atlanta. SHIEC is the national trade association of HIEs. HEALTHeLINK Executive Director Dan Porreca serves as SHIEC board chair and opened the fourth annual conference with welcoming remarks. Don Rucker, MD, national coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provided the conference's opening keynote. He gave a progress report on improving interoperability and usability of clinical information.
During the conference, Porreca presented "Documented value HIE organizations bring to their community," which highlighted several studies HEALTHeLINK has conducted in a variety of clinical settings and public health organizations to assess the impact of the use of HIE from a clinical quality, administrative expense and patient experience of care perspective.
Drew McNichol, director of technology, and Denise Marshall, senior manager, analytics & systems management, presented "A new paradigm for healthcare analytics," which focused on HEALTHeLINK's innovation in analytics with its vendor partner Stella Technology.
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Drew McNichol and Denise Marshall presented at SHIEC. Right and second from right.
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Patient privacy is of the utmost importance to HEALTHeLINK and we have a very active audit program to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations regarding access of records. HEALTHeLINK monitors who is looking at whose records in several ways.
Some examples are: viewing of patients' records who have the same last name as the Authorized User, viewing of co-workers' records at participant offices and for our own HEALTHeLINK staff, treating relationship verification, and management of consent including transmission of signed patient consent forms. Compliance is required and when there is a breakdown, sanctions including loss of ability to access patient records using HEALTHeLINK, loss of ability to manage consent or termination of relationship with HEALTHeLINK altogether.
HEALTHeLINK is dedicated to providing appropriate training to participants. Should a problem occur, we work with the privacy officers and authorized contacts at the participating practice to resolve the issue in a manner that ensures compliance while allowing the participant to realize the benefit of HEALTHeLINK. Should you have any questions regarding auditing or compliance, please call the HEALTHeLINK Support Line at 1-877-895-4724.
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Data Quality Scorecards Update
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The quality of patient information that is accessed via HEALTHeLINK is dependent upon the quality and completeness of the information that is received from data sources and practices. To improve the quality of date, HEALTHeLINK developed data quality scorecards, which contained information about the types and quality of the data that participating data sources are providing to HEALTHeLINK. Included below is an example of what the summary of data scores would look like on the scorecard. The scorecard also breaks down to further levels of detail to indicate exactly what the errors are and where they occurred.
Initially focused on the contributing hospital data sources, HEALTHeLINK is now reviewing scorecards with primary care practices.
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Physician Data Sharing Incentive
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The Data Exchange Incentive Program (DEIP) provides an incentive payment for the upload of a common clinical data set to HEALTHeLINK for a number of different organization types including Article 28 SNF and diagnostic treatment facilities, Article 36 licensed long term care facilities, Article 40 hospice, behavioral health practices, and Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful use practices. The program, originally created in 2014, has been extended to reward practices that go live through September 2020. This continues to provide facilities and physician offices with funds to offset costs associated with uploading data to the SHIN-NY. For more details on the program, contact your HEALTHeLINK account manager, or the Help Desk.
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HEALTHeLINK has been providing alert notifications to our participants for a
 couple years now. Currently, we deliver these alerts one by one, either to a direct messaging account, or directly into an EHR. Recognizing that individualized alerts can be quite time consuming to process, HEALTHeLINK is currently working on a project that will allow these alerts to be delivered as a daily batch file first thing in the morning for the previous 24 hours.
This new delivery process will be available from HEALTHeLINK soon. It is possible for a practice to keep your individual alerts and also have them collected and delivered to you in a batch. For more information on this new delivery method, please call the HEALTHeLINK Help Desk at 877-895-4724.
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Congratulations to Drew McNichol, HEALTHeLINK's Technology Director, on completing the Ironman in Lake Placid, NY this past weekend.
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HEALTHeLINK Medical Minutes
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The HEALTHeLINK Medical Minutes continue to air Wednesdays on Fox 29 during the 10 p.m. newscast. Tune in or check out HEALTHeLINK on
Facebook,
Twitter or
YouTube to view the latest minutes.
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What People are Saying About HEALTHeLINK
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