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Technology – particularly in healthcare – continues to evolve at a lightning speed with the goal of improving interoperability, care coordination and analytics. Emerging developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), plus new emphasis on health equity and whole person care, opens up a new array of opportunities and needs.
GaHIN examined its short- and long-term goals and responsibilities to its members and citizens of Georgia, talking with industry leaders across the state and the nation. The result is a decision to move forward with a new technology platform which will be live in a matter of weeks, and supporting all GaHIN members in a few short months.
Working with Ready Computing, GaHIN is leveraging state-of-the-art technology based on InterSystems’ advanced interoperability platform, HealthShare®. With this new system, healthcare providers can expect access to data and solutions to power analytics, coordinate care, integrate systems and obtain a complete picture of the patient.
What Will – and Won’t – Change
If you’ve been on a call with GaHIN’s tech team, you might have heard them reference GaHIN 2.0 as a way to differentiate the new platform from what is currently in place. That nickname is convenient, but temporary. GaHIN’s query and retrieve platform will still be named GeorgiaConnX®, but there will be new capabilities and services.
One of the most exciting changes will be GaHIN’s deployment of a data repository that aggregates patient information to support public health services and reporting, analytics and care coordination. This will be a change for GaHIN and members, who have previously signed data storage agreements with vendors rather than directly with GaHIN. Prior to instituting this change, GaHIN conducted a vendor risk assessment using third-party services.
The clinical data repository will include data from Medicaid claims, GRITS, ADTs, historical labs, SDOH and telehealth. All of these sources will feed into a patient’s longitudinal record.
High Priority Projects
Following are the initial high priority projects that GaHIN and Ready Computing are focusing on:
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HealtHIE Georgia – Clinical and lab data integration for CCDA publication and exchange, including advanced ADT alerting capabilities for their 25+ rural hospitals and community health providers
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DCH – Claims data ingestion, data normalization to CCDA/clinical data formats with the ability for advanced claims and clinical data matching and reporting outputs
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DPH – GRITS data ingestion, data normalization, and publication in standard clinical formats including advanced data registry reporting capabilities
Other members can be considered for prioritization as technology and business requirements are met.
Members on the current platform will have access to consolidated documents but no access to the enhanced viewer. Document retrieval will be available between both environments for current members.
InterSystems, an Industry Leader
Not familiar with InterSystems? Their technology powers public-sector healthcare providers across six continents to manage and document care – in person, virtually and through remote monitoring – in virtually every possible setting.
In the U.S., InterSystems powers state and regional health information exchanges that encompass more than 113M patient lives across 15 states and are informed by over 6,000 data sources.
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