The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority (NC HIEA) is pleased to announce a partnership with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC), housed at the University of North Carolina, to increase training opportunities for healthcare providers participating in the state-designated HIE, NC HealthConnex.
As NC HealthConnex has rapidly added Medicaid providers to its statewide network, the NC HIEA aims to train and prepare those providers better to utilize the HIE in their clinical workflows. Together, NC HIEA and NC AHEC plan to provide ongoing education opportunities to participants of NC HealthConnex through approved funding by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The NC AHEC Program has 35 practice support coaches trained to work with providers and clinic staff across the state. These coaches have helped more than 6,000 providers at 1,400 practices move toward promoting interoperability (formerly meaningful use) of their electronic health records in nearly 600 practices.
The NC HIEA has historically worked with NC AHEC to ensure this team is up to speed on NC HealthConnex recruiting efforts and technical features to share regularly with their practices. Created by the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGS 90-414.7), NC HealthConnex is the state-designated health information exchange managed by the North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority (NC HIEA) housed within the NC Department of Information Technology. Additionally, legislation requires that healthcare providers who receive State funds for healthcare services (e.g., Medicaid, State Health Plan) connect to NC HealthConnex by specific dates. For more information, visit www.nchealthconnex.gov.
NC HealthConnex is a state-designated health information exchange that enables one to manage population health and clinical outcomes effectively. Let us help you navigate this platform and its new features as they roll out. With NC HealthConnex, you can access your patients’ comprehensive records across multiple providers and review labs, diagnostics, history, allergies, medications, and more. As a result, you can eliminate duplicative testing, make more efficient and accurate diagnoses, and improve coordination across all levels of care.
In-person and virtual training can be scheduled with any of the nine AHEC regions. NC HIEA and NC AHEC are collaborating to build a training library of go-at-your-own-pace video training modules to provide NC HealthConnex participants with valuable training and use cases to support adopting and utilizing the state-designated HIE.
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