Delaware Health Information Network

DHIN Partners with WOMBA, Enabling Automated Record Retrieval for Insurance Applications & Claims

NEW YORK, NY (August 3, 2020) – WOMBA, LLC, the nation’s leading HIPAA-compliant medical data sharing retriever is pleased to announce its collaboration with Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN).

The first operational statewide health information exchange in the nation, DHIN provides an electronic network through which hospitals, physicians, laboratories and other clinical entities quickly and securely exchange clinical results and reports. Nearly 11,000 practitioners rely on DHIN’s Community Health Record, which securely stores over 150 million clinical messages and results for more than three million patients from fifty states.

Through this collaboration, with patient consent, WOMBA can securely retrieve otherwise disparately located medical data from healthcare providers throughout the state of Delaware and beyond to accelerate the life and disability insurance application process.

Streamlining of the life and disability insurance application process is one benefit of DHIN’s participation in the eHealth Exchange. This national group of federal agencies and non-federal organizations came together under a common mission to improve patient care and public health reporting through secure, trusted and interoperable health information exchange.

“WOMBA’s relationship with DHIN expands upon WOMBA’s geographic capabilities while providing it with another rich source of high-quality medical data. WOMBA’s technology allows for quick, secure records retrieval delivered to our clients in a normalized easy to read format,” said Moti Mitteldorf, CTO of WOMBA.com. “Integration with DHIN is another step in establishing WOMBA as the preeminent global leader in personalized health data retrieval and consolidation,” he added.

“Making it easier for consumers to directly access their clinical information is critically important in today’s patient-centered healthcare environment,” said DHIN Chief Operating Officer, Randy Farmer. “DHIN is proud to collaborate with WOMBA on this consumer-driven tool to share clinical information for insurance underwriting purposes, both providing a service to consumers and fulfilling our mission of making health data useful.”

WOMBA was founded by its CEO, ELI Rowe. WOMBA is the digital arm of PDC, the nation’s leading medical data retriever to the Life, Long Term Care & Disability Insurance industry. PDC/Parameds.com is the trusted entity in the industry with over 30 years’ experience in manual retrieval is now undergoing the paradigm shift enabling real time digital records retrieval. WOMBAs platform enables its hundreds of clients to evaluate the risk profiles of applicants in a transparent and friendly way, while significantly reducing costs, improving the process’ efficiency and accelerating the application process so individuals can receive coverage faster. WOMBA’s cutting edge platform uses advanced AI tools which allows for automated normalization of records from diverse data sources enabling underwriters to review records in an easy to read format.

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About WOMBA LLC
WOMBA is the only all-encompassing solution on the market; including a patient portal with integrated auditable record sharing, a telehealth platform, and a verified third party requester platform all wrapped into one HIPAA compliant solution secured by cutting edge multi-modality biometrics, KYC knowledgebase and powered by artificial intelligence.

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Governor Carney Announces Statewide Contact Tracing Program for COVID-19

WILMINGTON, Del. (May 12, 2020) – Governor John Carney on Tuesday announced that the State of Delaware entered into an agreement with the nonpartisan research institution NORC at the University of Chicago to build Delaware’s statewide contact tracing program to contain COVID-19, limit Delawareans’ exposure to the disease, and restart Delaware’s economy.

The contact tracing program builds on Delaware’s statewide plan to test up to 80,000 Delawareans monthly for COVID-19. Expanded testing and contact tracing efforts are key to reopening Delaware’s economy under guidance from the White House and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

NORC also has partnered with the State of Maryland to perform contact tracing. Delaware and Maryland will share information to more effectively monitor COVID-19’s spread across state lines.

Approximately 200 Delawareans will be hired as contact tracers and support staff.
Applications for contact tracers and other associated positions will be posted at de.gov/coronavirus in the coming weeks.

“To safely reopen our economy, we need to be able to quickly identify positive COVID-19 cases and reach out to those residents who may have been exposed. This contact tracing program brings us one step closer to returning Delaware to a new normal,” said Governor Carney. “We’ve been working with Maryland to coordinate our reopening efforts, and this partnership will build on that collaboration. Going forward, hiring a contact tracing workforce of Delawareans that reflects the diversity of our state will be a top priority.”

“This is a critically important complement to the statewide testing plan the Governor announced last week and the two plans are really integrally linked,” said DPH Director Dr. Karyl Rattay. “Contact tracing is a basic public health practice for containing an epidemiological event by talking with the person who is infected and reaching out to their contacts in order to decrease transmission. It will help us track positive cases of COVID-19 and limit the spread of the virus both short-term and long-term.”

“One of our highest priorities is making sure that our workforce of contact tracers reflects the entire community we serve,” said Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker, a practicing family physician. “When positive cases of COVID-19 are identified through widespread community testing, our tracers will need to work quickly to talk with known contacts and help them self-quarantine with any necessary supports.”

“We are proud to be part of Delaware’s solution for COVID contact tracing during this critical time in the state’s history,” said David Cotton, PhD, NORCs project director for this effort. “We are bringing to bear our decades of experience with high volume, scientifically rigorous data collection and public health expertise to help the State and DHSS stem the tide of new infections.”

Over the next week – as the State of Delaware scales up its contact tracing operation – 100 members of the Delaware National Guard will embed with the Division of Public Health to begin wide-scale, statewide contact tracing.

National Guardsmen and women began their training on Monday.

“I’m proud of our Delaware National Guard Citizen Soldiers and Airmen who volunteered to serve the state in this mission,” said Major General Michael R. Berry, Adjutant General of the Delaware National Guard. “Our Guardsmen and women live in these communities and are best positioned to assist DPH with such a critical role to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in Delaware.”

Under Delaware’s contact tracing program, Delawareans who have tested positive for COVID-19 should expect a phone call from a case investigator asking for information which includes a list of the person’s known contacts. Contact tracers will then reach out to each of those contacts to help them safely quarantine, to find alternate arrangements as necessary, and to help them get tested for COVID-19, if recommended.

Delawareans who need extra support to safely self-quarantine – such as grocery delivery or alternative housing – will be referred to a network of local community health workers. Healthy Communities Delaware will coordinate the community health worker effort, in partnership with community-based organizations.

“Healthy Communities Delaware believes that using community-based partnerships and providing necessary and life-sustaining resources and other social services supports directly to those individuals in vulnerable communities who are most impacted by COVID-19 is paramount in reducing the spread of this disease in our state,” said Rita Landgraf, Managerial Partner for Healthy Communities Delaware, University of Delaware Partnership for Healthy Communities.

The Delaware Department of Technology and Information will work with NORC’s technology partner, Enovational, and the Delaware Health Information Network to build a technology platform that allows the Division of Public Health to efficiently share data with contact tracers.

“Technology has played a critical role during this pandemic to gather, track, and share data,” said Chief Information Officer James Collins of the Delaware Department of Technology and Information. “In the hands of contact tracers, it will be an invaluable force multiplier that helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.”

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About NORC
From 2015 to 2020, NORC has conducted more than 3 million hours of telephone interviews. A significant portion of those interviews were in support of major public health-related studies such as the National Immunization Survey, which NORC conducts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which NORC conducts for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, which NORC conducts for the National Institutes of Health.

Many of these studies involve nuanced, carefully scripted conversations about sensitive health issues, and interviewees are often members of underrepresented or difficult-to-reach demographic groups. Through these and similar studies, NORC has derived significant methodological expertise, including how best to deploy and integrate different modes of data collection and the technologies that support them.

Anyone with a question about COVID-19, whether related to medical or social service needs, should call Delaware 2-1-1. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing can text their ZIP code to 898-211. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Questions can also be submitted by email at DPHCall@delaware.gov. DPH will continue to update the public as more information becomes available. For the latest on Delaware’s response, go to de.gov/coronavirus.

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DHIN Expands Its Clinical Data Pool

DOVER (March 3, 2020) – Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) is pleased to welcome two new data senders to the network. The addition of Delaware Diagnostic Labs and Poplar Healthcare increases the amount of clinical data available in DHIN’s Community Health Record and expands the resources necessary for care coordination.

The first operational statewide health information exchange in the nation, DHIN provides an electronic network through which hospitals, physicians, labs and other clinical entities quickly and securely exchange clinical results and reports. Since its inception in 2007, DHIN has evolved to offer nearly twenty distinct services, in addition to results delivery, to the healthcare community.

One of those services is DHIN’s Community Health Record, which gives healthcare practitioners secure and on-demand access to the clinical information they need ̶ across time, geography and care settings ̶ to care for their patients.

To date, nearly 11,000 practitioners rely on the Community Health Record, which securely stores over 150 million clinical messages and results.

“Adding Delaware Diagnostic Labs and Poplar Healthcare as data senders to DHIN means more patients will benefit from their clinical records being available to the healthcare practitioners who need that information to render care,” said Dr. Jan Lee, DHIN’s Chief Executive Officer.

Based in Newark, Delaware Diagnostic Labs is a full-service lab providing hematology, chemistry, toxicology, immunology and virology testing.

Headquartered in Memphis, TN, Poplar Healthcare provides specialized lab testing services to a nationwide client base of gastroenterologists, dermatologists, oncologists, urologists, gynecologists and their patients through its GI Pathology, D-PATH, Oncometrix, Bostwick Laboratories and Women’s Health Laboratories divisions.

“We are pleased to participate with DHIN by providing access to anatomic and molecular pathology reports and associated data within DHIN’s Community Health Record. We share in the belief that broad access to laboratory data improves care coordination and helps reduce the overall cost of care,” stated James P. Sweeney, Poplar Healthcare’s Chief Executive Officer.

To date, DHIN has partnered with 35 data senders, including hospitals, labs, radiology firms and other health information exchanges, to provide clinical results for more than three million patients from all fifty states.

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Funding Available to Connect Small PCPs to DHIN

NEW CASTLE (October 9, 2019) – The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is seeking applications from Delaware healthcare providers for one-time, health information exchange (HIE) support mini-grants to adopt the full range of health information exchange tools offered by Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN).

Delaware’s health information exchange, DHIN, holds nearly three million patient records. Additionally, DHIN allows the safe and secure delivery of clinical results and reports for patients, along with admission and discharge data from all Delaware acute-care settings and more than 46 long-term care facilities.

Eligible mini-grant applicants include small primary care and other medical practices, behavioral health providers, accountable care organizations and federally qualified health centers that are not adopting the full range of health information exchange tools offered by DHIN.

All applicants must be licensed in Delaware and must provide a valid medical license where applicable. Applications will be evaluated by the Delaware Health Care Commission (DHCC).

“This mini-grant opportunity will help primary care practices to serve their patients more effectively by enriching the electronic data they have available for each patient,” said Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker, a practicing family physician.

“The mini-grants also will help primary care practices to prepare for value-based care and improving health, which are critical to reducing the overall cost of health care across the spectrum.”

“DHIN is thrilled to work with the Department of Health and Social Services to bring data services to the healthcare providers of Delaware in support of treatment decisions at the point of care, as well as care coordination, patient engagement and data analytics,” said Dr. Jan Lee, CEO, Delaware Health Information Network.

This mini-grant is an opportunity for practices to expand their use of data as a lever in preparation for new payment models, including total cost of care and risk-sharing arrangements by having connectivity with DHIN.

To achieve this outcome, these mini-grants will support investments in EMRs (Electronic Medical Records), proper technology infrastructure, and DHIN-bundled services, with the ultimate goal of contributing data to and receiving data from DHIN.
This one-time funding is being offered to assist medical practices to adopt the full range of health information exchange tools offered by DHIN, including:
• Access to the Community Health Record (CHR), the longitudinal view of each patient’s health data regardless of place and date of service.
• A results-delivery interface that enables DHIN to securely deliver all result types from all data senders directly into the provider’s EMR.
• Care summary exchange, which enables the provider to send a summary of each clinical encounter to DHIN, thus enriching the data within the CHR for all users.
• Event Notification Service, by which DHIN can notify the provider or a designated care coordinator of admissions or discharges of their patients to approximately 200 hospitals, emergency departments (EDs) and other care settings across Delaware, Maryland, parts of West Virginia, District of Columbia, southern New Jersey and selected Pennsylvania EDs.
• Patient Portal/Personal Health Record (PHR), co-branded for the practice, by which a participating patient can view all their health data submitted to DHIN by all sources. (DHIN’s PHR is certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to meet all requirements for patient engagement under Meaningful Use and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.)
• Medication History, activated through the CHR, which enables on-demand retrieval of a 12-month prescription fill history, thus facilitating medication reconciliation.
The Delaware Health Care Commission is prepared to award up to 25 applicants in varying amounts, with the maximum award total of $8,000, to assist practices with start-up costs. Funding is made available through the Department of Health and Social Services’ Fiscal Year 2020 budget.

The DHCC will accept applications on a rolling admission and are due no later than November 30, 2019. Applications will be evaluated and considered as they are received. Final notifications of award will be sent by December 15, 2019. All questions and final applications must be submitted by email to DHCC@delaware.gov.

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About DHSS
The Department of Health and Social Services is committed to improving the quality of life of Delaware’s citizens by promoting health and well-being, fostering self-sufficiency, and protecting vulnerable populations.

 

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Delaware Health Information Network ~ Proud Participant in Nat’l Health IT Week 2019

DOVER, Del.—September 19, 2019—As the First State’s official health information exchange, Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) is proud to again participate in U.S. National Health IT Week (September 23 – 27). This annual week of action focuses on supporting healthy communities through the application of information and technology.

System-wide adoption of health information technology is critical to comprehensive healthcare reform, improving the quality of healthcare delivery, increasing patient safety, decreasing medical errors and strengthening the interaction between patients and healthcare providers.

Initiated in 2006 by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), U.S. National Health IT Week has emerged as a landmark occasion for using health IT as part of the overall solution to improve America’s healthcare as a bipartisan, federally-led, market-driven initiative.

The week consists of events across the country, including U.S. National Health IT Week participants —market suppliers, provider organizations, payers, pharmaceutical/biotech companies, government agencies, industry/professional associations, research foundations and consumer protection groups— all working together to elevate the advantages of advancing health IT.

Working together with our growing coalition of stakeholders, DHIN is proud to play a part in healthcare transformation in the First State.

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About DHIN
DHIN, the Delaware Health Information Network was the first live, statewide health information exchange in the nation. Launched in 2007, today it serves all of Delaware’s acute care hospitals and nearly 100% of the state’s medical providers. More than 14,000,000 clinical results and reports are delivered through DHIN each year. There are over three million unique patients with results on DHIN, including patients from all 50 states. DHIN shares real-time clinical information to improve patient outcomes, eliminate the duplication of services and reduce the cost of healthcare. For more information about DHIN, visit www.DHIN.org or call 302-678-0220. Please also visit us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram (@DHIN_hie).

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Quest Diagnostics Returns to Delaware Health Information Network

DOVER, Del.—August 26, 2019—Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) and Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, recently announced a new agreement which extends Quest’s participation as a data provider in Delaware, submitting lab results and clinical data to DHIN.

As a result of this agreement, Quest results will be made available to healthcare practitioners statewide through DHIN delivery channels and the Community Health Record’s searchable patient catalog, providing care providers with more actionable information to help improve patient outcomes. 

The first operational statewide health information exchange in the nation, DHIN provides an electronic network through which hospitals, physicians, laboratories and other clinical entities quickly and securely exchange clinical results and reports. Since its inception in 2007, DHIN has evolved to offer nearly twenty distinct services, in addition to results delivery, to the healthcare community.

Quest serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States.

“The DHIN-Quest connection solidifies the continuity of access to critical medical information relied upon by thousands of care providers and the patients they serve in Delaware and the surrounding region,” says Randy Farmer, Chief Operating Officer, DHIN. “DHIN is deeply appreciative for the continued engagement of our Quest colleagues and looks forward to working closely with Quest for many years to come.”

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About DHIN
DHIN, the Delaware Health Information Network was the first live, statewide health information exchange in the nation. Launched in 2007, today it serves all of Delaware’s acute care hospitals and nearly 100% of the state’s medical providers. More than 14,000,000 clinical results and reports are delivered through DHIN each year. There are over three million unique patients with results on DHIN, including patients from all 50 states. DHIN shares real-time clinical information to improve patient outcomes, eliminate the duplication of services and reduce the cost of healthcare. For more information about DHIN, visit www.DHIN.org or call 302-678-0220. Please also visit us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram (@DHIN_hie).

About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from a robust research and development program and the world’s largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 46,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. For more information, please visit www.QuestDiagnostics.com.

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DHIN and LegalShield to Launch Innovative Fraud Protection Product

DOVER, DE  ̶  August 21, 2018  ̶  Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) and LegalShield announced that the two companies have reached an agreement to build a unique identity theft protection product. They will couple DHIN’s Health Check Alert* with LegalShield’s IDShield, giving consumers in Delaware and the surrounding region peace of mind about the safety of their personal data and a one-stop shop to protect their health care and personal information.

Through DHIN’s Health Check Alert mobile messaging service, a subscriber receives a secure text message when a medical result has been delivered to his or her ordering physician, when a medical professional has accessed the subscriber’s medical record, or if the subscriber has been admitted to the emergency room or hospital. If the subscriber does not recognize an alert or encounter, he or she receives instructions to notify the appropriate party to point out the result or encounter.

The near-real time alert system is based on DHIN’s robust health information platform, which receives clinical results from all Delaware hospitals and commercial lab and radiology centers, as well as patient encounter information from nearly 100 hospitals in six states and the District of Columbia. Encounter alerts notify the subscriber of the delivery of information, along with the time, date and source of the information. No specific clinical information is included in the secure texts.

“With health records selling on the black market for reportedly up to fifty times more than financial information, Health Check Alert offers greater transparency into the sharing of a patient’s healthcare information,” explained Randy Farmer, DHIN’s chief operating officer. This unique identity theft product from the combined efforts of LegalShield, one of North America’s leading providers of affordable legal and identity theft plans, and DHIN will offer an added layer of protection for subscribers through an enhanced IDShield identity theft solution for individuals and families. 

“With more ways for criminals to obtain your personal information online—and more complex ways to cover their tracks—it’s more important than ever to protect consumers, and this partnership will help secure incredibly sensitive health information,” said Scott Grissom, VP, Product Leadership, Marketing & Sales. “IDShield is the only identity theft protection company armed with a team of dedicated, licensed private investigators to restore your identity. DHIN’s network and approach for near real-time alerts perfectly complements IDShield, creating a more comprehensive identity protection product.”

Subscribers will receive Health Check Alert and the full IDShield feature suite, including:

  • Court Record Monitoring
  • Credit Score Monitoring
  • Credit Score Tracker
  • Data Breach Notification
  • Emergency Assistance
  • Internet Monitoring
  • SSN Skip Trace
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Password App
  • Payday Loan Monitoring

The combined product is slated to launch in 2019, initially available to residents of Delaware and Maryland, with planned near-term expansion to the border areas of other states and the District of Columbia. The two companies will also approach healthcare systems and insurance companies across the country, as this solution is expandable to other regions. The service can be offered in lieu of traditional credit bureau monitoring services, which are typically offered to consumers after their information has been compromised. Learn more at dhin24seven.org.

* A provisional patent has been issued on DHIN’s Health Check Alert product, from an application submitted in partnership with mPulse Mobile, the leading provider of mobile health engagement solutions. 

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About LegalShield
A pioneer in the democratization of affordable access to legal protection, LegalShield is one of North America’s leading providers of legal safeguards and protection against identity theft for individuals, families and small businesses. The 45-year-old company has more than 1,753,000 members that are covered by its legal and identity theft plans. IDShield provides identity theft protection to one million individuals. LegalShield and IDShield serve more than 141,000 businesses. Both legal and identity theft plans start for less than $25 per month.

LegalShield’s legal plans provide access to attorneys with an average of 22 years of experience in areas such as family matters, estate planning, financial and business issues, consumer protection, tax, real estate, benefits disputes and auto/driving issues. Unlike other legal plans or do-it-yourself websites, LegalShield has dedicated law firms in 50 states and four provinces in Canada that members can call for help without having to worry about high hourly rates.

IDShield provides identity monitoring and restoration services and is the only identity theft protection company armed with a team of licensed private investigators on call to restore a member’s identity. For more information, call press and corporate relations at 580-436-1234.

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DHIN Welcomes 30th Data Sender, Limestone Open MRI and Imaging Center

DOVER, DE  ̶  May 17, 2018 –Delaware Health Information System (DHIN) is pleased to welcome Limestone Open MRI and Imaging Center as its newest data sender.

Imaging results from Limestone are now available to healthcare providers through DHIN’s Community Health Record (CHR) and delivered directly through the CHR inbox and auto print channels, as well as through participating electronic medical record connections. 

Patients using DHIN’s free personal health record, Health Check Connect, may also access their imaging results there. (Note that the ordering physician receives all results up to 84 hours prior to ensure he or she has the opportunity to follow up with the patient first.)

Randy Farmer, DHIN chief operating officer, said, “Partnerships with data senders like Limestone Open MRI and Imaging are key to DHIN’s ongoing efforts to provide a more complete patient record for Delaware’s medical community.”

Limestone Open MRI and Imaging Center Medical Director Tariq Quraishi, MD, cited the importance of the at-a-glance medical record DHIN provides, saying, “We are excited for our patients and referring physicians to now more easily access imaging reports through DHIN.”

To date, DHIN has partnered with 30 data senders, including hospitals, labs, radiology firms and other health information exchanges, to provide clinical results for more than 2.5 million patients.

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Governor Carney Signs Joint Resolution Honoring DHIN’s Work

DOVER, DE  ̶  May 4, 2018  ̶  A locally developed, nationally recognized health information exchange, Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) was recently honored by Governor John Carney with the signing of a joint resolution.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 54, sponsored by State Senator Brian Bushweller and State Representative Trey Paradee, recognized DHIN as an exemplary model for public-private partnerships and as a growing health information technology organization based in Kent County.

Governor Carney, who served as a member of the Health Care Commission when DHIN was established, described DHIN as both a “tremendous success and incredible tool for the healthcare community in Delaware.”

Since 2007, DHIN has provided an electronic network through which hospitals, physicians, labs and other clinical entities quickly and securely exchange clinical results and reports. Over the past decade, DHIN has evolved to offer nearly 20 products and services to a wide customer base, including healthcare providers, hospitals, Delaware Department of Public Health, health insurers and consumers.

Christiana Care CIO and SVP, Innovation and Strategic Development Randy Gaboriault, who serves as DHIN’s board chair, highlighted the key role DHIN tools and services play in helping healthcare providers to monitor at-risk patients. It’s the value of these offerings, Dr. Jan Lee, DHIN CEO, explained, that have allowed the organization to be financially self-sustaining since 2012.

Senator Tom Carper, who served as Delaware’s governor when DHIN was created, has been a stalwart supporter of the HIE since its inception. “What is Delaware famous for?” he asked. “Starting the country and DHIN.”

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Vynca and Delaware Health Information Network Partner to Implement End-of-Life Medical Orders Registry

PALO ALTO, Calif. & DOVER, Del.—Aug. 1, 2017—Vynca, provider of sustainable advance care planning solutions, and Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), the nation’s first statewide health information exchange, have established a partnership to facilitate the capture, storage and sharing of end-of-life medical orders across the care continuum.

Vynca offers a comprehensive software solution to capture, store, and access medical orders for Scope of Treatment forms, (e.g. POLST, MOLST) which are vital in ensuring that patients’ end-of-life wishes are met. The organizations will collaborate to create an electronic registry that provides a single source of advance care planning documentation instantly accessible online to authorized healthcare providers in any care setting. Work on the project commenced earlier this month, and the registry is expected to be operational by the end of the year.

“We are excited to support DHIN and its commitment to helping providers in Delaware to honor patients’ end-of-life choices,” said Maria Siambekos, Chief Executive Officer of Vynca. “The impact on patients and families when their wishes aren’t met can be devastating. We are hearing from an increasing number of healthcare organizations that this is a critical and highpriority issue. Vynca’s Advance Care Planning technology solution is flexible to support healthcare organizations across the care continuum to meet the needs of their patients at such an important time.”

End-of-life medical orders allow people with serious, life-limiting illnesses to document their care preferences. However, the lack of infrastructure to support and sustain an electronic registry can make it difficult for providers to find and access patients’ documents, especially during emergencies. In addition, patients’ end-of-life wishes are accurately documented only about 30 percent of the time,1 and about 25 percent of paper forms have an avoidable error that renders them unusable.2

Vynca‘s robust platform ensures that documentation truly reflects patient preferences, enabling best practices for advance care planning. Completed documents are easily accessible by multiple providers across a variety of care settings. The platform offers seamless provider workflow through electronic health record (EHR) integration, which eliminates redundant data entry, improves accuracy, and saves time.
Vynca and Delaware Health Information Network Partner to Implement End-of-Life Medical Orders Registry, page 2

“In an effort to close any gaps in making a patient’s end-of-life wishes known to his or her physician, the Delaware legislature earlier this year mandated these wishes be standardized through the Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment Act,” said Jan Lee, MD, Chief Executive Officer of DHIN. “DHIN is committed to partnering with the Goals of Care Delaware Steering Committee in making this critical information easily accessible to healthcare providers through Delaware’s Community Health Record.” 

About the Goals of Care Delaware Program Goals of Care Delaware (GoCD) is a program of the Delaware Academy of Medicine and the Delaware Public Health Association. The GoCD Steering Committee leads the Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (DMOST) program.

About Vynca Vynca, based in Palo Alto, Calif., provides comprehensive advance care planning solutions that enable healthcare organizations to deliver consistent, high-quality end-of-life care. The company helps patients and healthcare providers have meaningful conversations about care preferences, document wishes accurately, and provide real-time access to this critical information throughout the care continuum. Vynca offers expertise in building state registries, having partnered with the Oregon POLST Registry. It also was selected as the technology vendor for the California POLST Registry Pilot. The system is customized to the needs of healthcare organizations and state agencies, and provides full EHR integration. For more information, visit www.vynca.org. Follow Vynca on Facebook and Twitter @VyncaHealth.

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References 1. Heyland D, Barwich D, Pichora D, et al. Failure to engage hospitalized elderly patients and their families in advance care planning. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(9):778–787. 2. Schmidt T. Oregon POLST Registry Annual Report. Oregon2013.

Bear MRI & Imaging Joins DHIN

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Testimonials

“The information on DHIN is so helpful to our practice. We have patients come into the office that can’t remember where they had lab/radiology work done. Utilizing the DHIN system, we log onto DHIN, type in the patient’s name and we can see where the patient had reports done. It really does help us from having to call around and track down that information.”

– Debbie McGinnes, Nurse – Bijan Sorouri, MD, PA

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