MyHealth Access Network, Inc.

PROJECT PURPOSE

MyHealth Access Network is Oklahoma?s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and connects medical records from more than 1,400 sites of care into a single common health record for each of more than 4M patients, primarily living in Oklahoma. We propose three innovative projects to extend this critical infrastructure to better serve Oklahomans by improving health and well-being statewide. Expand MyHealth's Health Information Exchange and analytics capabilities to include advanced infrastructure for measuring and improving health throughout Oklahoma. This will include systems for health and community data connectivity, advanced analytics services, and support for care coordination. Create new public health infrastructure to support COVID-19 response and reporting by providing statewide disease surveillance and alerting, enabling rapid feedback, building State interface, geocoding of data and reducing burden on providers to manually report conditions and events. Bring to Oklahoma a state-of-the-art patient engagement and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) infrastructure for SDOH screening, mental health screening and more. Build on 4 years of experience with statewide SDoH screening by building and deploying advanced screening and intervention infrastructure to enable screening and referral of patients to services agencies and provide reporting and data visualization for this work.

EVIDENCE

HIE infrastructure and advanced analytics have been shown to reduce costs and improve health through elimination of duplicated testing and treatments, avoidance of medical mistakes, and speeding access to care. Public health and pandemic detection and response infrastructure improvements reduce detection times for outbreaks and enable more rapid responses, and reduce the burden on providers for continuous reporting of public health events. Social needs screening and direct engagement of patients with resources they need reduces costs and improves health and well-being by offering services conveniently via their own personal devices and at the precise time that patients need them most.

POPULATION DESCRIPTION

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, MyHealth has actively tracked and highlighted health inequities across Oklahoma including the social, racial, and geographic differences in access to care, rates of disease, and health outcomes. The expansion of Health Information Exchange (HIE) infrastructure and Pandemic reporting and analytics will allow MyHealth to serve healthcare, mental health, public health and social service organizations who work with rural, urban, and tribal underserved communities. Our project aims to impact vulnerable socio-economic, racial and ethnic groups living in Oklahoma as well as report valuable data on health inequities to our healthcare and public health partners. Since the Pandemic began, MyHealth has identified rural communities and those individuals with Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) needs as vulnerable populations with a disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes. MyHealth?s proposed expansion of a patient engagement and SDoH screening and referral project will connect patients including the most vulnerable with the social services they need in real time when they need them, all while protecting the patient?s privacy and ability to choose their preferred services. MyHealth is eager to begin building new infrastructure to continue serving communities and vulnerable populations disproportionately impacted by this Pandemic and for the future.

PERFORMANCE MEASURING

MyHealth?s team has extensive experience executing, managing, and reporting on grants and will leverage this experience to collect required programmatic data. HIE Infrastructure: Progress will be reported by status of development, testing, and production phases of each component. Metrics will include status of completeness, timeline, and budget. Public Health/Pandemic Response: Progress will be reported by deployment, development, testing, production, and monitoring phases including connections made, volume of data exchanged, and uptime of systems. Patient Engagement/SDoH: Progress of development, testing, and production for the new systems will be reported with outcome metrics including screening offers, responses, needs, interventions and reporting.

ONGOING INVESTMENT AMOUNT

$

ONGOING INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION

None

ONGOING INVESTMENT REQUIRED

Able to continue operation without additional funding from the State of Oklahoma