Inside this issue:

Non-Acute CCHA

Membership Growth

2

DataMart Supports

Population Health

2

CCHIE Hosts 2017

Annual Meeting

3

HIE Data Contributors

Integrations

3

Pender County Health

Dept. and CCHIE

3

Sandhills ACHE

Spring Summit

4

Coastal Connect HIE hosted over fifty attendees at the Country Club of Landfall for its 2017 Annual Town Hall Meeting (see page 3 for story)

News & Notes COASTAL CAROLINAS HEALTH ALLIANCE

CEO Update we enjoy the opportunity to bring together so many of our community stakeholders for

education and networking.

The CCHIE team is hard at work with new data contributor integrations and piloting the DataMart project. We look forward to sharing updates with you as these initiatives

continue to progress.

For Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance (CCHA), our new non-acute membership tier continues to add members. For twenty-five years, CCHA membership was exclusively hospitals, and last summer our Board of Directors approved a non-acute membership category to

2017 has been off to a great start! The team has been busy with leading our various programs and project teams. We’re

also looking forward to several new initiatives ahead as we

enter into the summer months.

Coastal Connect Health I n f o r m a t i o n E x c h a n g e (CCHIE) hosted its 2017 Annual Town Hall Meeting and had a great turnout. We truly appreciate everyone who attended as well as our event sponsor, HappyOrNot. We h e a r d t w o d e t a i l e d presentations about key topics for healthcare IT: MACRA and CMS Compliance. This is always a fun event to host as

e n h a n c e r e g i o n a l collaboration. Please see Barb’s article on Page 2 to learn more about our new non

-acute members.

Last but certainly not least, our Mobi le Simulat ion Program (MSP) continues to drive higher training utilization at our member hospitals. We’re excited to announce that the MSP has a new website, where we plan to share updates and market our training capabilities. The team recently added a new patient simulator, Senior HAL, which expands our current training offerings and available

scenarios.

Ongoing strategic discussions have

included offering CCHA Mobile

Simulation Program training to non-

acute members as well as how to

support these members with project

teams similar to the ones we offer our

hospital members. There will be

opportunities for these new members to

join those current teams where they

complement the ongoing activities of

the team (i.e. Physician Recruitment).

Many of the new non-acute members

are already participating in Coastal

Connect HIE, so this is a logical

extension of our offerings and value to

them.

We look forward to providing updates

as this membership grows! If there are

questions or prospects for this

membership please contact me at

bbiehner@coastalalliance.org.

Though still in its early stages of

development, CCHA’s new non-

acute membership tier is

continuing to generate interest

and growth. To date, non-acute

membership has been offered to

eight healthcare organizations, and four

have accepted. In the December issue of

News & Notes we reported that

Wilmington Health and Cape Fear Clinic

were our first two members; we’re excited

to announce that MedNorth Health Center

and Lower Cape Fear Hospice have

joined as well. Our plan is to have a

minimum of twelve non-acute members by

the end of the year.

Approved last summer by our Board of

Directors, the new non-acute category

includes all non-acute providers in our

region including: skilled nursing,

rehabilitation, home health, hospice,

physician practices (specialty and

general), and other clinical providers that

support delivery of health care in our

region. Staff has been working with our

current hospital members to identify key

players in their service area. We have

identified thirty potential members, to

whom we will extend an invitation for

membership.

We are concurrently developing new

CCHA group purchasing contracts for non

-acute members. These contracts will

focus on areas that are of greatest value

to this particular group. Our master

agreement with Intalere will be a primary

offering, which will give new members

access to over 1,500 non-acute contracts

in their portfolio. Several members have

already experienced savings within their

first few months of CCHA membership

with more to come!

Growth Continues for New CCHA Non-Acute Membership Tier

Coastal Connect HIE Data Mart Enhances Population Health Analysis

stored in one place allows providers to

aggregate and analyze the information for

a fuller picture of health on a community

or even regional level. Ideally, a DataMart

can help providers answer several key

questions about community health, such

as “Where are my patients or members

seeking care?” “What are the current and

historical characteristics of the patient

population?” or even “Are we providing

Over the past couple months,

Coastal Connect HIE staff

members have begun providing

demonstrations of the new

DataMart project as well as

connecting our first participants.

We continue to produce sample data and

evaluate the table structure, which is at

the core of the DataMart. The table

structure organizes information around

the patient and their encounter. We look

forward to additional integrity checks as

we begin to focus on electronic measures

and the capabilities of the normalized

data to cover the mandated requirements.

Our DataMart project aims to support

population health analysis and initiatives

by serving as a single, patient-centric data

store point for clinical data and clinical

documents from separate databases

across the network. Having the data

the correct follow-up to our patients in a

timely manner?” A DataMart is

consolidated, complete, clean, and

connected.

CCHIE’s DataMart will organize provider

access to data for over five million

patients across the region. We will help

our connected hospitals and providers

use the data to report on the required

measures and metrics for their practice.

Tables, like those pictured here based on patients’ ages and diagnoses, can be made

available through the Data Mart through data aggregation across multiple sources.

NHRMC to deliver electronically into

their electronic health records.

In April, the health department will begin pushing care documents to the HIE, which will allow labor and delivery staff at NHRMC to access care documents in real-time, thereby eliminating the current

workflow of faxing documents.

CCHIE is excited to support this public health work effort that will improve care coordination across our communities, and Karon and I look forward to the

upcoming CureMD event.

Coastal Connect HIE staff have been asked to give a presentation on their integration project with Pender County Health Department’s electronic health record vendor, CureMD,

at the CureMD annual client conference.

Karon Casey, IT Support Lead, and I will attend the conference as co-presenters. Our talk will focus on a scope of work that will support real-time exchange between the HIE and the health department for maternity patients that deliver at New Hanover Regional

Medical Center (NHRMC) in Wilmington.

Pender County Health Department is already live with results delivery from the HIE, which allows results from

helps to support transition of care

among participants.

Also in April, the Pender County Health

Department will begin pushing provider

notes to the HIE. (Please see Patty’s

article below for more information about

this initiative)

We are also excited to announce that

EmergeOrtho will become an HIE data

contributor in late May.

As you can see, the CCHIE is staying

busy working throughout the region.

Coas ta l Connec t Hea l th

Information Exchange (CCHIE)

hosted over fifty attendees at its

2017 Annual Town Hall Meeting.

Those attendees represented

CCHIE-connected hospitals and

community providers across this region.

They joined us at the Country Club of

Landfall in Wilmington for updates on a

variety of timely topics and for networking

with other CCHIE members.

We had two guest speakers join us, too.

Mary McCaskill, Health IT Manager for NC

AHEC, spoke on “Navigating MACRA,”

and Dr. Andres (Andy) Exposito, Medical

Director of Physician Advisor Services at

EdiPhy Advisors, gave a talk on

“Reducing Claims Liability and Enhancing

CMS Compliance.”

Yvonne Hughes, our CEO, and Blair Kraft,

our Director of IT, rounded out the day

with updates about CCHIE’s growth and

DataMart Initiative. Yvonne shared

information about connecting community

providers and the functionality within the

HIE that supports transitions of care,

including the Community Health Record

and ADT (Admission, Discharge, and

Transfer) notifications. This segued to an

overview of the DataMart from Blair. He

summarized how a DataMart will

aggregate patient data from across a

variety of platforms into a single, patient-

centric store point. From there, healthcare

providers can access the data for

longitudinal analysis and population health

initiatives.

We sincerely appreciate all who attended

and made this a spectacular event.

CCHIE looks forward to hosting this event

next year when we’ll have new successes

and milestones to share with our

stakeholders. Also, we’d like to say a

special thank you to our fantastic event

sponsor, HappyOrNot!

Coastal Connect HIE is gearing

up for several upcoming

practice integrations. With

March Madness in full swing,

our team created the Data

Contributors bracket shown

above. Here’s a look ahead:

Coming in April, Coastal Connect HIE

participants will be able to query and

retrieve Continuity Care Documents

(CCDs) from UNC Healthcare and

Mission Health for acute and

ambulatory patients. This added value

Coastal Connect HIE hosts 2017 Annual Town Hall Meeting

Pender County Health Department Leverages CCHIE for Patient Transition

Coastal Connect HIE Integrations

Thank You to our

CCHIE Annual

Meeting 2017 Sponsor:

PHOTOS FROM THE 2017 CCHIE ANNUAL MEETING:

Thank You to our

Alliance Day 2016 Sponsors:

ACHE Sandhills Spring Summit Returns to Wilmington for Education, Networking

CCHA is partnering again with the Sandhills Chapter of ACHE ( A m e r i ca n Co l l eg e o f Healthcare Executives) to sponsor its 2017 Spring Summit., which will be held at

the New Hanover Regional Orthopedic Hospital on April 13—14, 2017. Last year’s event was a tremendous success and we anticipate another

great turnout.

This year’s two-day event will feature several great topics, including managing morale, telemedicine, optimizing patient throughput, and boosting marketing ROI. We have fantastic speakers lined up for each panel and look forward to hearing them share their best practices, insights, and expertise. We sincerely appreciate

them taking time to speak at the event!

The 2017 Spring Summit is open to both ACHE and non-ACHE members. Students are also invited to attend at no charge. For additional information about the schedule, prices, and registration, please visit our Event Brite

page at: http://bit.ly/2nsoCWg

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