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Information Exchange between Providers, Payers and Public Health to Support Rapid Cycle Health Outcomes Improvements in Hypertensives: Experiences from the Million Hearts Learning Collaborative
ASTHO’s ten state Million Hearts Learning Collaborative focused on operationalizing the sharing of data between public health and clinical systems utilizing health information technology. States worked closely with multiple clinical system partners including public and private payers, hospital systems, and accountable care organizations to leverage the real time data in both electronic health records and claims databases to control hypertension. States worked to create bidirectional systems to link local and state data to clinical partners together to identify hot spots and trends and to also work to create a team based care system between public health and providers to provide resources in the community for patients identified with hypertension.
Multi-directional data exchange among providers, payers and public health departments to support the prevention of chronic disease should be paired with appropriate interventions and deliberate collaboration among the levels of partners. The data can support quality of care improvements and community level interventions focused on reducing the burden of disease.
Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and preventionCommunication and informatics
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Describe effective approaches for developing partnerships to support
Identify resources available to support and promote collaboration, implementation of protocols and processes, and policy development at the state and local levels.
Utilize data from clinical and payer informations systems to support population health improvements.
Keyword(s): Chronic Disease Prevention, Information Technology
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Senior Director for Health Promotion at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. In that capacity, I manage our Million Hearts project and work closely with 10 state partnership grantees on measuring outcomes of community interventions to improve blood pressure control.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.