For Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

MyHealth Access Network links more than 4,000 providers and their patients in a community-wide health information system that will help provider’s better monitor and improve care to:

• Reduce health care costs associated with redundant testing, hospital admissions, and emergency department visits
• Improve care coordination during transitions between health care settings
• Improve patients’ experience and ability to take control of their own health
• Improve quality care for the state of Oklahoma and its nearly 4 million patients
• Bring community leaders and organizations together to utilize health information in meaningful ways to improve community care

Social Drivers of Health

MyHealth provides a mobile screening system, in partnership with its Oklahoma health care partners, that helps individuals with needs find assistance from services and resources offered in the community in the following core areas:

• Housing instability and quality 
• Food insecurity 
• Utility needs 
• Interpersonal violence 
• Transportation needs beyond medical transportation

Through this program, individuals will receive a text message with a link to a screening that invites the person to seek assistance with one or more of the health-related social needs. If the individual identifies a need, the program will provide the person with a customized list of resources based on location. This valuable service creates no additional work for the healthcare partner who offers this service to their members/patients.

Alerts & Notifications

The health care industry has looked to health IT, such as MyHealth, for communication solutions to enhance and augment their care management and care transitions improvement programs.

One approach involves sending automatic notifications or alerts from hospitals to primary care practices and/or care managers when a patient has a hospital admission, discharge or transfer.

These notifications and alerts are designed to improve the timely flow of information so providers and case managers can quickly and effectively address the health care needs of their patients transitioning from inpatient facilities to community care.

In addition to improved patient health status, these alerts and notifications are expected to facilitate a reduction in hospital readmissions.

Meaningful Use Resources

The idea of Meaningful Use developed as the brain-child of the National Quality Forum (NQF) in its efforts to determine a set of national priorities that, if focused on, would help health care performance-improvement efforts. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) added to the Meaningful Use by focusing on preserving and improving the affordability of health care. The act provided eligible providers economic incentives when they adopt certified EMR/EHR technology and use it “meaningfully” through Medicaid and Medicare. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 identifies three main components of Meaningful Use:

• Using EHR in a meaningful manner
• Using certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care
• Using certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures