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Officials say federal grant and Healthy Connect could bring behavioral-health records into state exchange
Summary
Municipal lobbyist Wendy Chamberlain said integrating behavioral-health records into the state's Healthy Connect Health Information Exchange is a municipal priority; Alaska received an above-average first-year award from the federal Health Transformation Fund to support interoperability.
Anchorage committee members heard that integrating behavioral-health records into the state's Health Information Exchange (HIE) could improve crisis response by giving mobile crisis teams and hospitals access to patient histories and medication lists.
"When a patient is picked up in your crisis by your crisis teams or is identified at the hospital ... you'll know what medications they're on,"…
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