The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) https://mihin.org, a nonprofit statewide Health information network, is now partnering with PointClickCare Technologies https://pointclickcare.com, a post-acute EMR vendor in the U.S.
Although Michigan has experienced widespread adoption of certified health IT systems over the last several years, many long-term care facilities and emergency medical service providers are not yet able to comprehensively leverage the state’s health information shared services utility.
“PointClickCare will exchange post-acute health information throughout our shared digital infrastructure at an unmatched pace and scale, helping to tie the gaps of post-acute care into the integration and connection of the care continuum. Now over 250 new post-acute providers and case managers will be able to exchange real time data via the state network” reports, Dr. Tim Pletcher, DHA, Executive Director of MiHIN.
As part of the partnership, MiHIN will offer PointClickCare’s Emergency Department Optimization (EDO) platform to hospitals across the state of Michigan. Using the EDO platform will enable emergency departments to access real time insights, ranging from prior patient encounters histories to interorganizational patient care plans to support patients across the healthcare continuum.
The EDO platform will be beneficial to clinicians delivering care to increasingly complex and vulnerable patients such as expectant mothers, vulnerable patients experiencing health inequities, patients being transitioned from post-acute facilities, and patients impacted by the opioid crisis.
MiHIN and PointClickCare are calling upon hospitals in Michigan who are interested in accelerating the responsive, HIE-enabled capabilities of their EDs to provide feedback and input to the broader network.
Providers and groups using the statewide digital infrastructure are also encouraged to collaborate to explore a new Use Case with MiHIN, with the terms Alert and Query. The goal is to harness alert notifications to trigger a query to a long term care facility in order to gather and present the most actionable prior information to the ED.