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Little Rock, March 2022  Highlands Oncology Group (HOG), one of the largest oncology practices in the country, has connected with the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE), the statewide health information exchange (HIE) that facilitates the secure exchange of patient health information among hospitals, physicians, clinicians, and other members of the medical community. Nationally recognized cancer care in Northwest Arkansas their clinics offer highly advanced treatment options.

“Highlands Oncology Group is committed to delivering high-quality care in a professional and caring environment to improve the health and well-being of our patients,” said Jeff Hunnicutt, Chief Executive Officer of Highlands Oncology. “By connecting with SHARE, we expect to further this commitment by exchanging information more efficiently with referring physicians and providing our doctors with the patient information they need at the point of care.”  HOG is a nationally recognized cancer care in Northwest Arkansas that treats patients from Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma, and southern Missouri. Their clinic offers highly advanced treatment options, multi-disciplinary cancer teams, and industry leading clinical studies.

Highlands Oncology Group is sending admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) data and Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs) to the HIE. HOG is also live with SHARE’s Virtual Health Record, which features a robust patient search functionality that lets providers and care teams quickly access patient health data from hospitals, physician practices, state health systems, and more. This includes records such as medical history, previous diagnoses, lab tests, medications, and allergies. Additionally, SHARE provides access to 24-hour Hospitalization reports (Inpatient and Emergency Department) discharges, COVID-19 Positive Reports, and COIVD -19 Vaccine status of their active oncology patients.

“We are pleased to welcome Highlands Oncology Group, one of the nation’s leading oncology practices, to SHARE,” said Anne Santifer, executive director of SHARE. “This connection helps facilitate the seamless and secure exchange of patient health information with Arkansas’s health systems, hospitals, and physicians. This delivers substantial benefits for patients, referring physicians, and the HOG practices.”

The SHARE network currently has more than 3 million unique patient records accessible to providers. SHARE is connected to the national eHealth Exchange and is also a member of DirectTrust, which enables its members to securely exchange information nationally with other providers who are using Direct.

About Highland Oncology Group: The mission of Highlands Oncology provides the highest quality of innovative care delivered with precision and compassion.  With locations in Springdale, Fayetteville, and Rogers, they provide Northwest Arkansas with comprehensive cancer care. They offer state-of-the-art medical care, with a commitment to honoring and caring for every person that we have the privilege to serve with love, joy, compassion, and ultimate respect.

When it comes to the ongoing war against cancer and blood diseases, there’s no other entity in Northwest Arkansas that’s waging a more direct, powerful, full-range offensive against these killers than Highlands Oncology Group.

Highlands, which was formed in 1996 and now has clinics in Fayetteville, Springdale, and Rogers, has made its mission to provide comprehensive cancer care using the latest, most advanced technologies and research available. This departmentalized approach has spawned the creation of a cancer research team and the Center for Chest Care, which is a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. Patient education, patient support groups, and research through clinical trials are also important services offered at Highlands Oncology Group.

Learn more: highlandsoncologygroup.com

 

22 March 2022      While technology knows no bounds, the same could not always be said for important medical test results. Until very recently, Arkansas residents being treated in Tennessee and Mississippi did not have the benefit of having medical test results electronically delivered to their Arkansas physicians and updated in the state’s health information exchange, SHARE. Baptist Memorial, a leading healthcare provider, has gone live with an expanded connection as a data provider with the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE).

The recent addition of the Baptist Memorial Health System – 20+ hospitals and 200+ primary care and specialty care facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi, provides for an even more complete community health record for Arkansas residents when getting care across state line.  This expansion complements SHARE’s connection to their hospitals and clinics in Arkansas.

As the Arkansas’ only statewide health information exchange, SHARE is an electronic network for hospitals, physicians, medical providers, laboratories, FQHCs and others to safely exchange clinical results and reports. “With respect to healthcare, the speed at which state lines are blurring continues to accelerate, and the addition of an institution as large as Baptist Memorial is momentous,” said Justin Villines, HIT Policy Director of the Office of Health Information Technology that oversees SHARE HIE. “We see a time in the very near future when doctors across the country will have seamless and secure exchange of health information across a borderless system, regardless of where the patient lives, works, or vacations. These are the steps to making that level of clinical access a reality.”

About Baptist Memorial Health Care

Regarded as one of the premier health care systems in the nation, Baptist Memorial Health Care is an award-winning network dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care for patients. With 21 affiliate hospitals throughout the Mid-South, Baptist combines convenience with excellence of care — two reasons they have been named among the top health care systems in the country for several years.

With the intention of caring for people close to their homes, the Baptist system also offers more than 5,000 affiliated physicians; home, hospice, and psychiatric care; minor medical clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation, and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by the Baptist College of Health Sciences.  Since their modest beginning in 1912 with a 150-bed hospital, Baptist has grown to meet the expanding needs of the communities they serve, at one point becoming the largest privately owned hospital in the nation. But what has remained is the same caring atmosphere that inspired their founders. From their kitchen staff and office personnel to their experienced medical staff and renowned clinical services, that pervasive spirit of caring inspires every area of operation at Baptist.

Visit: http://www.baptistonline.org