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Insurers for MiHIA – What can you get out of our organization? We pride ourselves in having a philosophy of working together to support and improve quality with our health information exchange. Full participation by the three core participant groups, backed by the larger community of stakeholders, is essential for success. The core participants are the providers, the payors, and consumers. Payors can enhance quality through successful plan design and alignment of new payment rules that reinforce quality and evidence based practice. Providers can enhance quality by adopting practices and behaviors that lead to the best diagnosis and optimal treatments. In order to achieve maximum success, however, consumers must also fully participate since they have significant control over when and how they engage in the health system. Consumers decide when to comply with practice recommendations and they are responsible for ensuring that they are truly making informed decisions about their personal and loved one’s health. If done successfully, the outcome from such a tri-fold approach results in better health status for the community, greater value for resources consumed and more satisfied patients. MiHIA Actions that Support Quality - Generating a community wide quality of health report so that everyone can easily gauge the quality of care and health status in our region compared to the rest of the State of Michigan and the nation.
- Engaging providers to use available information and participate in quality improvement initiatives such as the advanced patient centered medical home and the use of National Quality Forum measures.
- Facilitating consumer decision-making.
As another part of our mission, MiHIA has developed a plan for a self-sustaining Health Information Exchange (HIE) service for our community. HIE can be described as the movement of health care information electronically across organizations within a region or community. Benefits of Health Information Exchange Health Information Exchange (HIE) offers the potential to improve patient safety, ensure that physicians have the tools and information they need at the point of care to optimally treat their patients, enable better coordination of care among different providers, support public health reporting, reduce paper inefficiencies, and shorten the time it takes to accurately make diagnoses and provide appropriate treatment. Improving the overall quality and competitiveness of region’s health care environment will eventually lead to greater economic development opportunity for the entire community. Financial Benefits In addition to the improvements for patient safety and better care, the MiHIA Business and Finance team estimates a potential community benefit in excess of $40M+/year, due to greater efficiency and reduction of unnecessary services.
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