Month: August 2023

A rigorous evaluation process led to Smile Digital Health becoming the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services’ data fabric partner of choice to meet the interoperability needs for health data utility.

TORONTO, August 16, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Smile Digital Health (Smile), a leading Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) health data fabric and exchange solutions provider, today announced a partnership with the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) on the implementation of its next-generation health information exchange (HIE) platform. MiHIN is leveraging Smile’s Health Data Fabric (HDF) in this next phase of its digital transformation.

MiHIN is Michigan’s non-profit state-designated HIE, providing critical and comprehensive patient information to doctors, clinics, federally qualified health centers, hospitals, pharmacies, health insurance providers, and public health in Michigan. Over the last 15 years, MiHIN has set the national standard for building health information networks in an equitable and sustainable manner. 

Smile’s HDF enables field-leading next-generation HIEs, offering best-in-class security, scalability, performance, composability and innovation acceleration tools. MiHIN will use Smile to future-proof its modernization investment by building an open standards ecosystem and cloud native computing. Along with Smile’s robust privacy and security certifications, its scalability allows for MiHIN to enhance services to its Michigan customers and fast-track growth for MiHIN’s national subsidiary HIE network operated by Velatura Public Benefit Corporation. MiHIN and Velatura will use its new FHIR advanced HDF from Smile to enable new and advance data sharing use cases and analytics services that will assist in the transformation of care and support Velatura’s gateway hub as part of the national Patient Centered Data Home (PCDH) initiative.

“Enabling meaningful health data sharing hinges on open standards, freeing information from silos and fostering seamless integration between data and care,” said Dr. Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of MiHIN. “Smile’s steadfast dedication to open standards perfectly aligns with MiHIN’s unwavering drive to establish a forward-looking and market-responsive HIE, facilitating the seamless integration of clean, actionable data, real-time quality measures, point-of-care clinical insights, and more.”

MiHIN had to consider many necessary attributes when planning the modernization of its HIE and how Smile could support the transformations. Smile’s event-driven design was a requirement to enable real-time data exchange and updates. MiHIN also needed Smile’s open standards-based platform to ensure seamless interoperability between the healthcare ecosystem stakeholders and data utilizers.

“Quality healthcare requires quality data and insights to ensure positive patient and population health outcomes. MiHIN’s use-case factory and equitable business models are a perfect match for our FHIR data platform to ensure the safe, just-in-time, delivery of contextualized information wherever the patient chooses to get their care. This move ensures that they can scale with growing data volumes due to increasing demands as they grow with Velatura,” said Shane McNamee, MD, Chief Growth Officer, Smile Digital Health. “A next-generation HIE will significantly improve healthcare data exchange and overall patient care. We’re proud to play a crucial part in MiHIN’s continuing digital transformation.”

Mary Lantin, General Manager of Availity Clinical Solutions, commented, “So many of today’s, and tomorrow’s, critical healthcare initiatives require the use of FHIR data. As a long-time technology partner to MiHIN, we are delighted to continue to support MiHIN’s best-of-breed FHIR strategy in cooperation with Smile Digital Health. Availity Fusion for clinical data upcycling, and proven and scalable FHIR conversion and FHIR streaming, ensures that data that is delivered to patients and providers is the highest quality possible.”

For those interested in more details on modernizing an HIE through FHIR open standards, contact Smile Digital Health or book a meeting to chat at Civitas.

About Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services

The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) is Michigan’s state-designated entity for the technical, legal, secure, and private exchange of health information. Breaking down disparate and siloed data systems, the digital network is dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience, improving quality, decreasing cost and solving for health. MiHIN is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, socio-technical collaboration that includes the State of Michigan, Health Information Exchanges, health systems, hospitals, care providers, behavioral health clinics, FQHCs, PIHPs, health plans/payers, pharmacies, post-acute care, hospices, and the Governor’s Health Information Technology Commission. For more information, visit https://mihin.org.

About Smile Digital Health

Smile Digital Health is a health information technology company focused on delivering better global health through open standards. Our enterprise-grade, open framework data fabric and integration platform fuels healthcare’s digital transformation and accelerates value creation across all patient journeys at scale. Powered by our HL7® FHIR® standard-based clinical data repository (#SmileInside), our platform enables collaboration and allows organizations to ingest, transform, store, enrich, analyze, aggregate and meaningfully share the health information to power digital transformation. We prepare healthcare providers, payers, researchers and life sciences organizations for a connected future beyond legacy systems, adding new value through the intelligent use of information, and ultimately delivering better patient outcomes. For more information, visit SmileDigitalHealth.com. 

Contact Information:

Victoria Valladolid

Director of Marketing, Smile Digital Health

[email protected]

(877) 537-3343 x 728

Emily Mata

Director of Public Relations, Michigan Health Information Network

[email protected]

(517) 745-8835

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MiHIN Modernizes and FHIR’s Up Its Health Information Exchange With Smile

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SEATTLE, August 16, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Inc. revealed today that Optimize Health, one of the nation’s most trusted remote care platforms, has been ranked No. 679 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a unique data-driven look at the economy’s most dynamic segment — its independent, entrepreneurial businesses — and is a key achievement for a growing business. 

“Optimize Health is honored to be recognized by Inc. as one of America’s most successful private companies,” said Todd Haedrich, CEO of Optimize Health. “The past two years have been transformational for Optimize Health, and being named to the Inc. 5000 is a testament to the incredible success of our customers and the industry-leading product our team has built. Now, we’re focused on further accelerating our momentum as the leader in remote care and empowering physicians, their teams and their patients to take control of their chronic conditions. We are just getting started in enabling digital healthcare to provide better outcomes for everyone.” 

Health systems, physician practices, federally qualified health centers (FQHC), accountable care organizations (ACO), and large medical groups have been turning to Optimize Health to transform their care delivery. It is estimated that 6 in 10 Americans have at least one chronic condition and more than $3.7 trillion is spent annually for the management and treatment of these conditions. Optimize Health’s clinician-focused platform built around remote care enables healthcare organizations to easily and effectively deliver remote patient monitoring, enhance the patient-provider relationship, improve practice workflows and help thousands of physicians and over 50,000 patients to gain control of their chronic conditions. Respectively, Inc. ranked Optimized Health No. 58 in Health Services.

The Inc. 5000 class of 2023 represents companies that have driven rapid revenue growth while navigating inflationary pressure, the rising costs of capital, and seemingly intractable hiring challenges. 

“Running a business has only gotten harder since the end of the pandemic,” says Inc. editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. “To make the Inc. 5000 — with the fast growth that requires — is truly an accomplishment. Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that are building our future.”

“Being recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic headwinds, shows the potential of remote care, remote patient monitoring and chronic care management. Here at Optimize, our world-class team is committed to continue delivering high-quality products and services to help physicians. We thank our physicians, their patients and our partners for putting trust in us,” says Haedrich. 

For complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, location, and other criteria, go to www.inc.com/inc5000.

About Optimize Health 

Optimize Health is revolutionizing the healthcare industry through its innovative technology and patient + care team-centric approach. The company leverages cutting-edge Remote Patient Monitoring technology and easy-to-use devices to improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical decision-making, and optimize operational efficiency for healthcare providers. We’re on a mission to transform how medical groups use technology and real-time data to treat patients outside the practice walls. As the leader in remote care solutions, we help physicians deliver proactive care that re-centers the patient and provider relationship and improves patient outcomes and their quality of life. For more information, visit optimize.health.

Contact Information:

Todd Haedrich

CEO

[email protected]

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Optimize Health, the Nation’s Leading Remote Care Company for Physicians, Has Been Named to Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies in the U.S.

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