HealthInfoNet notifies Maine CDC on hospitals and reference labs behalf

for specific lab results and syndromic surveillance. Stats for the last 12 months are below, with the addition of immunization data in March of 2017. 

930,281 Lab Results	3,086,031 Syndromic Surveillance Messages	5,812 Immunizations  (Began March 2017)

    

"HeathInfoNet is an invaluable service and I always learn more about my patients. I work at multiple Genesis Healthcare locations and its now part of my workflow to keep HIN open along with my electronic health record. It is especially useful where I work at Marshwood Center, since Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary's provide data to HealthInfoNet.  And now that Southern Maine Healthcare is connected to HealthInfoNet, I have much more information about my patients at Riverwood Center.

 

When patients return from hospitalization, I can access the discharge summary, more robust records, and test results - which I don't have to repeat. Having consultation information is useful especially for palliative care in geriatric consultations. There are also aspects of a patient's H&P that can be difficult to retrieve upon arrival at a post-acute care facility - such as possible advancing dementia or resolving delirium - and I can often find prior H&Ps or discharge summaries on HealthInfoNet."