NETWORK NEWS
Metropolitan Human Services District improves integrated care for patients through health information exchange
MHSD is a participant of PelEX, a health information exchange focused on making timely, actionable data available to providers to stay up to date about their patients. As a participant, MHSD has access to the Hospital Utilization Report, a daily dashboard report built in partnership with PelEX that provides them with visuals and tables of hospital encounters of their persons served. The Hospital Utilization Report provides only essential information, like name, phone number, encounter details, and diagnoses from the hospital visit, which helps MHSD to reach out to patients discharged from the hospital to plan follow-up care and prepare for the patient’s visit.
PelEX leads care coordination discussion at 504HealthNet’s inaugural Connected Care Summit
PelEX was invited to participate in the first 504HealthNet Connected Care Summit, hosted at the University Medical Center in New Orleans. The summit gathered 504HealthNet members to discuss the current and future state of care coordination and ways to improve it between member organizations.
Greater New Orleans Health Information Exchange rebrands as PelEX, reflecting statewide growth and commitment to all Louisianians
We are proud to announce that PelEX will change its name and brand to PelEX, signifying the widening horizons for the health information exchange and its member network. As we continue to grow our network across Louisiana, our organization remains committed to providing a health information exchange for all, with a focus on underserved and vulnerable patient populations.
Access Health spearheads attribution performance improvement
A few years ago, AHL noticed that their Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measure performance was consistently lower than expected, which was impacting their financial gains on their value-based contracts. For example, despite performing well on the Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) measure for diabetes control, they failed to meet their target for the equivalent HEDIS measure.
