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Great Lakes Health Connect Surpasses 1 Million Referrals Across 11,000 Users with HolonATLANTA, Aug. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Holon Solutions, healthcare's leading data liberator, announced today that Great Lakes Health Connect (GLHC), one of the largest health information exchanges (HIEs) in the country, has surpassed access to more than 1 million closed-loop referrals statewide since Fall 2017 using Holon's CollaborNet® Referrals application. At GLHC, Holon's point of care platform is accessible to 11,229 users at 1,078 different organizations across the state, including three of Michigan's largest health systems. Averaging approximately 600 users per day, CollaborNet Referrals through GLHC has shared more than 3.5 million attachments to ensure seamless care continuity and quality of care. "Referrals are a core part of the machinery that makes healthcare run and a tactical aspect of operations that every organization must invest time and energy," said Doug Dietzman, chief executive officer of GLHC. "That is part of the reason that the Holon application, Referrals, which we call the Bridge, has been rapidly adopted across our network and has become essential to our large group practice and health system members who perform thousands of referrals a month. It saves them time and administrative burden by seamlessly aligning patients with the care and services they need faster and more efficiently while being able to close the loop with data and documentation." Holon Referrals is one of three applications comprising the company's CollaborNet point of care platform. CollaborNet liberates the data to liberate the care by automatically surfacing relevant patient-specific insights curated from numerous sources to providers at the point of care within the existing electronic health record (EHR) workflow but without the need for point-to-point connections or any EHR vendor involvement. Holon's patented technology empowers collaboration across health communities through surfacing relevant clinical and non-clinical data, including social determinants of health data, to support the coordination of care across care settings. With Holon, traditional healthcare settings, such as a primary care office, ae now collaborating on the same platform as community-based organizations. Holon also automatically populates documentation and communication channels along the continuum of care, enabling providers to attach documents, check the status, and chat with the partner referral organization, all electronically. Users are updated throughout the process, reducing the need for follow-up phone calls for confirmation. Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Flint Since the launch of the initiative, emergency department utilization among Medicaid patients attributed to participating SIM physician practices has been reduced by more than 15%. Greater Flint Health Coalition credits their success to participating providers being better able to address and coordinate a proactive response to the social determinants of health needs of the targeted populations. Following the success of this initial implementation, GLHC expanded its deployment of CollaborNet Referrals across its statewide network. "GLHC is an inspiring model of what is possible when a multidisciplinary team of providers and other health professionals leverage intuitive, user-friendly technology to collaborate and ensure patients receive the care and services they need," said Robert Connely IV, Chief Strategy Officer of Holon Solutions. "Being able to expand across the state was possible due to the great partnership we have forged with GLHC and their relationships throughout the state. This was coupled with our commitment to deliver innovative technology that was nimble and built on a scalable architecture." Growth Plans "The biggest industry-wide movements toward interoperability are all predicated on a query-based method of sharing continuity-of-care documents, which are blunt, very long documents that physicians don't have time or want to read," said Dietzman. "Holon knows who the patient is and what is unique about them and knows who the user is and what is unique about them. It gives us the opportunity to dip into the ocean of data we are collecting and put it into the workflow in much more discreet and specialized ways than any of those other interoperability mechanisms could conceive of doing. We're looking forward to offering more of its capabilities to our network members." About Holon Solutions For more information about how Holon helps healthcare organizations fulfill the promise of value-based care, visit www.holonsolutions.com. About Great Lakes Health Connect Media Contact: View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/great-lakes-health-connect-surpasses-1-million-referrals-across-11-000-users-with-holon-300900995.html SOURCE Holon Solutions |