One of Michigan’s largest HMOs has joined the Michigan Health Information Network to share its data.
Molina Healthcare of Michigan, a subsidiary of California-based Molina Healthcare, said it will join the network with its 244,000 statewide members in what is the first information sharing effort for Molina in Michigan. Data will include admissions, discharges and transfer notifications.
As part of the data sharing effort, Molina said it will be able to securely and legally help coordinate care for patients between multiple payers and providers. The HMO will receive an alert whenever its patients are admitted, discharged or transmitted from a provider through the Michigan Health Information Network, which processes 77 percent of all admissions across the state, according to Healthcare Informatics.
After joining the Network, Molina can explore additional services across a number of health information scenarios, among them medication reconciliation and clinical quality measures, with the aim of giving physicians a better sense of the patients medical history and conditions.
The Network includes eight HIEs across Michigan and is “actively working” with HIEs in other states. It has already connected with neighboring Indiana as well as Florida and North Carolina and is in planning stages with Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Tennessee, Arizona and Nevada.
