State-Based Strategies for Dental Data Exchange and Care Coordination
Care coordination is essential to providing patients with the best possible care — the right care, at the right time, in the right place. Ensuring that all providers caring for a given patient have access to the same information and can communicate seamlessly with one another is vital to transforming the health system. Health information exchange can reduce costs and improve care by eliminating inefficacies, connecting providers, and increasing transparency by bridging gaps in existing health systems.
In this interactive session, panelists discussed activities, goals, and strategies aimed at incorporating dental health information into state health information technology roadmaps, health information exchanges (HIEs), and quality measurement. The objective of the session was to provide information on the WHY and HOW from the perspective of state-level entities. Watch the recording of this session if you are interested in innovative solutions and best practices to move coordinated care forward in your state.