Little Rock, Arkansas February 2023
The State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE) HIE securely provides a comprehensive picture of a patient’s care across providers and regions with Access Medical Clinics. Access Medical Clinics now has over 35 clinics statewide from Garfield to El Dorado and growing. Patient’s records are updated 24/7 with each encounter with connection between SHARE and their Athena EMR. Connecting practitioners to timely and actionable patient information facilitates care coordination and promotes cost-effective solutions.
SHARE is a gateway to real-time, actionable patient data to improve routine care, emergency care or care management. Data can be queried directly from the Athena EMR or accessed through the SHARE Virtual Health Record (VHR) Portal. With increased patient mobility and expanded healthcare delivery options, SHARE provides access to the bigger patient picture 24/7.
TESTIMONIAL: Our clinics have used SHARE HIE for over 5 years now and have been very satisfied with the service they provide. They do just what they set out to do and have connected our clinics with valuable patient health information including hospitalization reports daily. It is very common for there to be a delay in receiving patient records, and this can truly hinder the overall care they receive and their experience at the clinic. Having immediate access to this information has assisted us in providing more thorough treatment plans, medication management, and improved overall patient care. Our providers, like many, monitor large patient caseloads along with their medication management. The option to upload our provider caseloads to have alerts sent to them regarding their specific patients has assisted with providing the best patient care we can, while reducing duplicate work, and additional costs to the patients. Dr. Bradley Bibb, MD, Family Physician, Access Medical Clinic Arkansas
TESTIMONIAL: Access Medical Clinics are working diligently to improve continuity of care for our community. Over the last years we have been so excited to partner with SHARE to electronically connect to outside health care providers. Our care coordination team now has the tools and resources we need to improve care outcomes. Living in rural areas of the state there is often a large disconnect in information sharing. I am thankful SHARE is working to bridge that gap. Skip Carter, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Access Medical Clinic Arkansas
Types Data Exchanged with Access Medical Clinic with SHARE HIE
- Demographics: Name, Gender, DOB, Race, Ethnicity, Language, Insurance Information
- Allergies, Medication Allergies, Immunizations, Medications & Observations
- Clinical Summaries & bi-directional Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs)
- Diagnoses, Procedures & Discharge Summaries
- Lab Tests, Values, Results, Other Diagnostic Results & Problem Lists
- Radiology Reports
- Vital Signs (Height, Weight, BP)
Health information exchanges (HIEs) are crucial for connecting communities and ensuring patient medical records are always available. As value-based care brings more focus to patient social needs, HIEs allow organizations such as first responders, prison clinics, organ donation organizations, schools, social determinants of health screeners, and behavioral health and IDD centers to connect and share patient information. The first step to increasing participation in HIEs is to ensure that rural providers understand the benefits associated with this data exchange and then outlining strategies to help them access the technology needed. Increasing the participation of rural hospitals in HIEs plays a role in helping struggling providers enhance care coordination to improve performance. With access to clinical data, providers and care teams can gain key insights to their patient populations and the unique problems they face, while simultaneously reducing the burdens on the providers who can make better decisions for their patients. Connecting rural hospitals, specialists and behavioral health is moving the dial on nationwide interoperability efforts that aim to shift to value-based care models with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
About Access Medical Clinic: Access Medical Clinic is a leading family practice providing a complete complement of care and treatment options for patients throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Indiana. With its dedicated team of physicians, family nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and other healthcare providers and support staff, Access Medical Clinic is committed to helping every member of your family stay as healthy as possible at every age and every stage of life.
The clinic offers an array of medical care services, including routine and school physicals and other preventive care services, Medicare annual wellness visits, DOT physicals, pediatric well visits, women’s health visits, sports physicals, immunizations including flu and pneumonia vaccines, treatments of illnesses and injuries, and health screenings aimed at preventing disease. In addition, the clinic features an on-site laboratory for testing that’s both convenient and thorough. Walk-in visits for urgent care needs are also welcome.
Every member of the Access Medical Clinic team provides individualized care based on each patient’s unique medical needs and lifestyle factors, including age, for optimal health and wellness in patients of all ages, including pediatric patients and seniors. The clinic is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide the highest level of care in a relaxing, patient-centered environment. Access Medical Clinic offers several convenient locations to serve both new and established patients and accepts most major insurance plans.
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SHARE has received the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Outcomes-Based Certification (OBC). During the certification review, SHARE proposed three of its premier services for CMS to evaluate: event notification services, real time Medicaid clinical data exchange, and public health reporting capabilities. The certification allows SHARE to receive enhanced federal funding to support the ongoing operations and to continue our mission to improve the delivery, coordination, and quality of health care across Arkansas. 
Health Information Exchange (HIE) has the potential to change the way we provide and receive medical care. It can assist in eliminating fatal medical errors and save lives. Changes are on the way for health care in Central Arkansas. PrimeCare Medical Clinic, a multispecialty clinic with locations in Searcy, North Little Rock, Conway, and West Conway, has integrated their eCW electronic medical record system with SHARE HIE. The goal behind this coordinated effort is to better connect physicians with the patients’ health data while PrimeCARE Doctors, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners work collaboratively to provide excellent care with a more complete health record of their patient.
Benefits of SHARE HIE include better access to health care, less paperwork for doctors and patients, better care, increase in administrative efficiency, decrease in the cost of healthcare, and prevention of deadly medical errors. Having access to the most up-to-date patient information can assist care teams to deliver the best possible care, avoid duplicate medical tests, and save time.
About PrimeCare: Walk-in 7 Days a Week PrimeCARE makes seeing a provider easier! Their extended hours and medical expertise are here to help with urgent, non-life-threatening illness and injuries every day. Patients don’t need a prior appointment to see a provider and they accept most insurances. In Central Arkansas, their patients are never far from convenient family medicine!
ambulatory/specialty sites, and behavioral health centers to better track and manage continuity of care delivery activities for its population, specifically person’s living with multiple chronic conditions.
view of their health history, treatment, and progress. That is powerful information that transforms the way the clinics’ care team plans, delivers and coordinates with their patient population.
Amazing Staff: Julie Pennington, BSN, RN, Julia Barnes, MT, Milton Remley, Paramedic, Amy Jones, LPN, Hayley Woodard, LPN, Kylie Caldwell, RT(R) Kelby Smith, RT(R) Emmalee Satterlee, RT(R) Anna Wright, Keanu Green, Alex Cross, Lexi Dunaway, Evelyn Martinez, Stacy Burns, Kelli McTigrit, LCSW
Little Rock, Arkansas October 2022 The core of Health Information Exchange (HIE) is sharing of electronic information between organizations. Because of the power and complexity that’s possible with Electronic Health Records (EHR), organizations such as Ozark Orthopaedics continue to invest significant time and resources to achieve the level of interoperability that’s essential for efficient care.
In Ozark Orthopaedics’ four locations, they are committed to improving the quality and safety of care they provide to their patients. That’s why they have integrated their Athena EHR with SHARE – which allows the clinicians and care team to quickly get the comprehensive medical information they need to deliver efficient and personalized care.
About Ozark Orthopaedics: 
This has now changed for CABUN Rural Health Services clinics, that is now integrated with the Arkansas’ statewide health information exchange, known as the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE). As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), CABUN established in 1978, has taken interoperability to heart the last few years, which is a visible expression of the unswerving commitment they have to the Arkansas communities they serve. Their partnerships with local businesses and concerned citizen groups, as well as their participation in community development activities, speak to the ongoing commitment to provide affordable health for all in Arkansas.
About CABUN Rural Health Services: 
CABUN Rural Health Services is a private non-profit corporation developed to provide affordable care to meet the primary medical and dental care needs of the residents in 8 counties of rural south and southwestern Arkansas, especially in the communities of Hampton, Bearden, Strong, Hope, Amity, El Dorado, and Lewisville. CABUN is a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers care in communities that would have no other source of healthcare. Through their affiliations, CABUN can provide affordable medical, laboratory, radiological, and dental services to all in Arkansas. CABUN has created a Patient-Centered Medical Home through a network of primary care clinics, dental clinics, and wellness centers. CABUN’s highly trained doctors, dentists, and healthcare professionals provide education and prevention programs to other Arkansas agencies, as well as to our patients. They are a health center in the Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C.254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n).
An FQHC Treats Complex Patients Using SHARE HIE Data
About Boston Mountain Rural Health Ceter, Inc. 
Hark uses an innovative model to connect people to resources through a combination of its Hark technology platform and its connection specialists, known as Community Liaisons. To better understand the lives and health of the people of Northwest Arkansas and to help guide them to community services, Hark and SHARE worked together to build an interface linking the SDOH data to the HIE that makes the information available to providers when serving their patients’ healthcare needs.
which consisted of approximately 3,000 surveys and 350 focus groups for a wide range of community members. The study attempted to identify why Northwest Arkansas students were not thriving and what solutions needed to be implemented as a result. The findings of the study revealed that the region is “resource rich and connection poor”, meaning that while there are often health and human services available to help, accessing them is much harder than it should be. The study also showed that this wasn’t just a problem with K-12 students but also with everyone in the region.
One of the solutions for improved mental health treatment is integrated care. Local initiatives, such as the SHARE HIE and AR Nextstep Counseling Services, are now integrated sharing data with their PIMSY EMR to simplify access to behavioral healthcare for vulnerable patients. 
Their experience enables them to offer the most effective outpatient care. They treat several mental health conditions and provide a healing environment to individuals, families, and couples. 