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The Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) recently asked GaHIN for help in capturing and securely exchanging documentation between the state’s pediatric psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs) and the care management organizations (CMOs) responsible for managing these patient populations.
The challenges included:
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CMOs needed access to discharge planning data to ensure proper follow-on care was occurring and that services were being rendered.
- DCH needed the discharge planning data to gain care utilization insights and to facilitate program oversight.
- The care community, to including primary care providers, behavioral health services, and social needs services, needed access to discharge planning data to ensure the highest quality and continuity of care.
Because GaHIN’s GeorgiaConnX system can securely exchange documents and data, the teams worked together to build an online form that all PRTFs can easily use to capture discharge planning data. They also architected workflows that facilitate the auto-population of data and patient matching within GaHIN, so the PRTF caseworkers do not have to enter all of the data manually.
The result? A universal discharge planning form that reduces the administrative burdens for both discharge planners and CMOs. DCH, the CMOs, and the care community get greater access to the data they need to ensure patients get the care and services they need.
As this initiative gets underway, the teams are already thinking about future use cases, which may include the exchange of more clinical data (such as allergies, medication lists, and more comprehensive medical records) and even the sharing of ADT data that can alert stakeholders of client hospitalizations and more.
GaHIN is proud to be partnering with DCH to continue to expand access to health and social care data that can inform and empower better community health. To learn more about the great work that GaHIN is doing, visit www.gahin.org and ask to speak with one of our experts.
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