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HealtheConnections has been steadfast in its mission to collaborate with you to develop and deliver valued services, enabling improvements for healthier people, better care, and cost efficiencies. We set ambitious objectives and targets each year because improving health and care in our communities is a job that is never truly done.
Value, Innovation, and Collaboration: Priorities for 2024
We pride ourselves on being a customer-driven organization, lining up our priorities with those of our participants, partners, and a stakeholders to deliver value. As we look to the start of a new year, we’re focusing on joint efforts with…
MORENew York State’s 1115 Medicaid Waiver Gets Green Light
The Approved Waiver and its Goals New York State has finally received approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its new Medicaid 1115 waiver amendment. The approved Waiver aims to: advance health equity, reduce health disparities,…
MOREOptimizing Your Customer Support Experience
We are implementing new customer support processes to increase efficiency and ensure timely, effective service for all our customers. If you currently reach out to an individual HealtheConnections representative for any emerging needs or questions, this message is for you!…
MOREHealtheConnections Can Help During a Security Incident
As a HealtheConnections participant, you have access to community-wide medical records for your patients. Not only does this help provide optimal care every day, but you also gain a backup system when and if a security incident occurs. Security-related incidents…
MORE2024: Investing in Innovative Data Centric Technologies and Services
As we approached our thirteenth year of operations providing actionable health information exchange (HIE) services for over 1,600 organizations across New York state, we developed a vision for the future. We’ve learned that each participating and partnering organization has unique…
MOREExploring How HIEs Can Support Public Health Surveillance
Community-wide health information exchange (HIE) data offers unique opportunities to inform, support, and promote initiatives aimed at improving health in our communities. HealtheConnections has partnered with Lantana Consulting Group to investigate public health use cases for HIE data. A strategic…
MOREAn Active Search for Pilot Partners: Understanding the Use of Social Determinants of Health Screening Tools
To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the collection landscape and ingestion of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data, HealtheConnections is working with all the QEs and the Gravity Project, a national public collaborative that develops consensus-based data standards to…
MORECollaborations with the NYS Department of Health Showcase the Value of HIE Data
Innovative Chronic Disease Grant At the end of September, HealtheConnections will complete its fifth and final year of activities supported by New York State’s Innovative Chronic Disease grant, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The overall…
MOREA Commitment to Ensuring Accessibility for Authorized Users
HealtheConnections is committed to ensuring that all authorized users, including those with disabilities, can successfully use our systems. Accessibility is a critical aspect of providing high-quality tools and services, and we, alongside our state partners, are actively improving our systems…
MOREInnovative Chronic Disease Grant with the NYS Department of Health Showcases the Value of HIE Data
At the end of September, HealtheConnections will complete its fifth and final year of activities supported by New York State’s Innovative Chronic Disease grant, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The overall goal of the CDC…
MOREComing Soon: Modernizing the HIE through a Data-Centric Model
Our HIE users have come to expect a high level of performance from our systems and services, with a focus on continuous improvement and optimization. Now, we’re kicking off a new initiative to advance our system further through a data-centric…
MOREHealtheConnections Assists CDC With Public Health Analytic Projects
Community-wide health information exchange (HIE) data offers unique opportunities to inform, support, and promote initiatives aimed at improving health in our communities. HealtheConnections has partnered with Lantana Consulting Group to investigate public health use cases for HIE data. Lantana helps…
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