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The Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network is working to enable real-time data sharing and close critical information gaps as patients transition between hospitals and long-term care facilities through an agreement with PointClickCare.
WHY IT MATTERS
Provider participants on the WISHIN health data network could boost care performance and ultimately, patient outcomes, the HIE announced on Monday. Through the partnership, PointClickCare will push ADT data to the WISHIN Pulse platform.
As patients transition between acute and post-acute facilities, access to the company's LTPAC dataset can help ensure that their providers and payers are well-informed and can offer person-centered care, according to WISHIN.
"This collaboration with PCC enables care teams to coordinate healthcare for shared patients moving between acute and post-acute facilities," WISHIN CEO Steve Rottmann said in a statement.
The company says its long-term care and post-acute patient dataset is the largest in North America and has data exchange partnerships to access acute care data in several other states.
Two years ago, Texas' C3HIE, which provides care coordination services, added 40 hospitals to the platform to improve patient care interoperability across the Lone Star State.
THE LARGER TREND
WISHIN has been working to close gaps in care by improving data quality among its network of health systems, hospitals, clinics, post-acute facilities, pharmacies, EMS, public health agencies, behavioral health, correctional facilities and payers.
In July, the healthcare organization certified that 44 of its data sources are primary source-verified for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) reporting through the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Data Aggregator Validation program.
U.S. health plans rely on HEDIS to measure care and service quality and drive value-based care. WISHIN was among the first to certify under the clinical data-sharing measurement program.
"The real-time nature of the clinical data shared with and through HIEs means that the most complete and current data can be applied as clinical decisions are being made," then WISHIN CEO Joe Kachelski told Healthcare IT News in a 2022 conversation about value-based care and technology's role in evolving HIEs.
Data exchange, combined with advanced technologies, is also addressing another key pain point in post-acute care coordination – staffing shortages – according to PointClickCare.
Nursing homes and post-acute care facilities have adopted technologies such as artificial intelligence to help nurses improve patient care at the point of care by summarizing patient records, noted Dr. Steve Buslovich, the health tech company's chief medical officer of senior care and a geriatrician.
AI improves nurses' time and experience at the bedside, he explained on HIMSSTV in October in a discussion about how artificial intelligence is used to address post-acute care staffing shortages.
ON THE RECORD
"Collaborating with WISHIN makes critical hospital and emergency event data more accessible to LTPAC providers across Wisconsin," noted Dr. Humad Husainy, PointClickCare's chief medical officer, in the announcement.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org
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