Everyday Health Current Participants are using HIE services to provide better care and better outcomes for their patients. See the HIE Success Stories below to learn how Participants are integrating data from the HIE into clinical workflows, and improving care and care coordination, with improved patient outcomes.
If you or your practice would like to share a Success Story and be featured in our Health Current Update, please email us at info@healthcurrent.org.
At Community Health Associates (CHA), they weren’t surprised with how quickly they were able to use Health Current Alerts, but they were surprised at how often an Alert indicated an emergency department (ED) admission for one of their high-needs patients, according to Jessica Gleeson, Population Health Administrator for CHA. “We were surprised at the volume …
Improving daily staff scheduling through Health Current Alerts? While it’s not the primary benefit, Jason Smidt, Chief Information Officer for Arizona Home Care says that improving staff scheduling is an unexpected benefit of the Health Current service. Arizona Home Care is the largest locally owned home health agency in the Valley, providing home health care …
After just the first week of access to the Health Current portal, Dr. Fred Karst, Chief Operations Officer at Horizon Health and Wellness, knew that Health Current was going to change the way they operate. In fact, Health Current has already helped them cut hospital admissions in half for their highest users. Serving a patient …
Some of the most difficult decisions for patients, their families and their providers involve end-of-life care, especially the decision to forego aggressive medical treatment and focus on palliative care. Patients with complex and multiple chronic conditions typically have many healthcare providers and specialists so it can be time consuming to obtain a complete medical history. …
Avoiding a patient blood draw and a duplicate lab test because your organization is connected to the Health Current portal is a good thing. If it means avoiding blood draws for your population of seriously mentally ill (SMI) patients, the connection means much more. When Southwest Network was first connected to Health Current, one of …
As the largest pediatric practice in northern Arizona, Mountain View Pediatrics must operate efficiently to keep their patients healthy. But that operation became more efficient this past year when Mountain View Pediatrics joined Health Current, according to one of the co-owners, Ron Tuckman, MD, and office manager, Angela Hernandez. The eight pediatricians and one nurse …
Karen Critchley, Care Coordination Supervisor for El Rio Health often refers to the work of her team as studying “the migratory patterns of El Rio patients.” That can be quite an undertaking considering El Rio’s mission as southern Arizona’s largest federally qualified healthcare center (FQHC), serving some 95,000 patients. Up until recently, that “study” involved …
HIE is part of innovative approach to reduce avoidable 911 calls and hospital transports Traditionally, first responder organizations such as fire departments have been in the business of treating and simply transporting patients to hospitals – the most expensive place to deliver care. Beginning last year, the fire departments in five West Valley cities created …
Perhaps the best way to describe Dr. Lee and his St. Vincent de Paul Virginia G. Piper Medical and Dental Clinic is to describe what he does not have. He serves a low income working population transitioning from an acute hospitalization. His clinic does not have an X-ray machine nor any radiology. He does not …