New York State, as a part of its Medicaid Part 1115 Demonstration Waiver, is looking for to combine healthcare and social care by way of newly created networks. The $500 million program is one part of a $7.5 billion three-year waiver with practically $6 billion of federal funding.
The Syracuse-based HealtheConnections well being data change is partnering with three social care networks (SCNs) throughout the Hudson Valley, Southern Tier, and Central New York areas to handle health-related social wants (HRSNs): Hudson Valley Care Coalition, Care Compass Community, and Wholesome Alliance. Every of those SCNs has contracted with UniteUs, a social care coordination firm, to host their HRSN screening and referral platform for streamlined coordination and efficient information assortment.
Working with the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and the 5 different Certified Entities of the Statewide Well being Info Community for New York (SHIN-NY), HealtheConnections is collaborating in coordinated efforts to change HRSN information between the SCNs and the SHIN-NY information lake.
Utilizing artificial information, HealtheConnections and companions throughout the SHIN-NY just lately accomplished a testing part to determine dependable processes for seamless information stream between the SCNs and the SHIN-NY information lake. The following part shall be working immediately with the three SCNs and UniteUs to change their HRSN information.
HealtheConnections stated it’s going to additionally work with hospital-based and ambulatory practices inside its service space to gather information from HRSN screenings performed inside their techniques. All HRSN information collected by these efforts shall be accessible by the HealtheConnections platform for question, which ought to permit for extra complete insights for care suppliers with out the necessity for extra instruments or techniques.
HealtheConnections’ well being data change covers 26 counties in New York State, and surrounding states, supporting greater than 11,000 physicians and the tens of millions of sufferers they serve.
The Medicaid waiver program will search to handle well being disparities in low-income communities by leveraging federal funding to facilitate Medicaid members entry to dietary meals, housing helps, transportation and different social companies. By integrating social care and well being care, this program advances a key initiative below the New York Well being Fairness Reform (NYHER) waiver modification.Â
The SCNs shall be core to facilitating the supply of health-related social wants, together with diet, housing helps, transportation, and case administration for eligible Medicaid members, with the aim of addressing well being disparities and enhancing inhabitants well being.

Amongst their different targets, the SCNs will search to create a extra accessible buyer expertise for Medicaid Members looking for HRSN companies by social care navigation and closed loop referrals. The additionally plan to construct the capability of community-based organizations (CBOs) to supply high-quality HRSN companies and to handle new or elevated administrative tasks by capacity-building and dependable funding streams.
