November 2022

Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) notifications can help improve care quality, avoid hospital readmissions and improve care transitions and coordination. These automated, actionable alerts are delivered to care managers and providers in near real time, helping to ensure timely follow-up and avoid gaps along the care continuum.

GaHIN and its technology partner, Velatura Services, have recently completed ADT connections for care management organizations (CMOs) and HI-BRIDGE HIE. The private CMOs work in partnership with the Department of Community Health (DCH) to deliver healthcare services to members of Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids®. Currently the three CMOs in Georgia are Amerigroup, CareSource and Peach State.

GaHIN provides care alerts from providers for these events:

• Admitted as inpatient: When a patient is admitted as an inpatient to provider
• Discharged from inpatient status: When a patient is discharged from inpatient status from provider
• Transferred to another inpatient facility: When a patient is transferred to another inpatient facility from provider
• Held on 23-hour observation: When a patient is held for observation at provider and it is not considered an ER visit
• Treated in ER visit: When a patient is seen in the emergency room

“We are pleased with the robustness of the information being provided through these actionable ADTs,” says Denise Hines, GaHIN Executive Director. “They are delivered in a format that can be electronically ingested into the recipient’s technology system, reducing their administrative burden and ensuring easy access to this critical information that improves care quality and coordination.”

ADT alert contributors include:

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Grady Health System
• Harbin Clinic
• HealtHIE Georgia
• Wellstar Health System

HI-BRIDGE HIE Connects to Georgia Correctional Facilities

Wellpath, which is contracted by the Georgia Department of Corrections to provide comprehensive medical services to state correctional institutions, is now connected to HI-BRIDGE HIE. This connection allows Wellpath to electronically share real-time, secure healthcare data between the HIE and Wellpath’s electronic health record platform.

This data can include medication history, prior diagnoses, allergies and lab reports from other contributing sources. The bi-directional data flow between Wellpath and HI-BRIDGE HIE also enables clinical services provided by Wellpath to be added to the patient record and shared with other local and national healthcare providers and organizations when the patient seeks medical care following release.

“This unique model of patient clinical care coordination with partners covering public, private, and academic sectors provides Wellpath clinicians with vital patient data at the point of care or in a healthcare crisis. said Carmen L. Hughes, MBA, Executive Director, HI-BRIDGE HIE.

HI-BRIDGE HIE is an independent regional information exchange established through the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine and connected to GaHIN. The Wellpath/HI-BRIDGE HIE relationship goes back to 2017, connecting a network of local county jails with the exchange of patient health information.

The relationship was strengthened through the participation of HI-BRIDGE with GaHIN in the ONC STAR HIE grant, which included connecting state correctional facilities as one of its goals.