Manifest MedEx (MX), the largest nonprofit health data exchange in California, now has 400 participating organizations, exchanging information in real time for 17 million people, according to officials of the health data sharing network.
The 17 million people who are having their data exchanged via the MX network represent approximately 40 percent of Californians. What’s more, Manifest MedEx delivers 80,000 notifications each month to medical providers in real time when their patients are admitted, transferred, or discharged from the hospital, its officials pointed out in an announcement this week.
It’s been a busy year already for the California health data network. It recently rolled out a$60,000 per hospital bonus program for participants that join the network before May 31, and was also selected for a $4.9 million grant from the Emergency Medical Services Association (EMSA) to connect California’s ambulances and emergency departments.
And, later this summer, Manifest MedEx plans to launch a new suite of MX Analyze tools to help providers put network data to work for their patients. Free for all small practice providers, these population health management and analytics tools aim to assist in identifying patients missing crucial preventive care or most in need of care coordination and other support, according to officials.
In 2017, Manifest MedEx was formed as the result of a merger between San Francisco-based California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX) and the San Bernardino-based Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE).
At the time of Manifest MedEx’s launch that year, and as reported by Healthcare Innovation, the merger combined the 11.7 million claims records from Cal INDEX founding members Blue Shield of California and Anthem Blue Cross with the 5 million clinical patient records of IEHIE and its 150 participating partners. Last year, Blue Shield of California announced that it would be requiring providers in its contracts to participate in Manifest MedEx.
