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NEWS Calling All Mentors! Do you worry about who will take care of your patients when you retire? Are you looking for a meaningful way to give back to your community? If so, look no further! SJMS is currently recruiting volunteer mentors to join our Bridge to Medicine (BTM) committee. BTM guides high achieving students (high school & college) along their academic journey so that they have the best chance of being accepted to medical school and ultimately return to practice in our community. The committee meets every other month (virtually via Zoom) and consists of physicians (working & retired), alliance members and even a local college professor. Most importantly, you don’t need to be an expert! We have committee members with a wide array of skill sets and resources, so you are never alone. For more information, please contact Lisa Richmond at 952-5299 or Lisa@sjcms.org. Cal-HOP HIE Funding Opportunity Expiring Soon In September 2020, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) launched a new effort to boost the use of health information technology by providers. The California Health Information Exchange Onboarding Program (CalHOP) committed $50 million to help more practices participate in health information exchanges (HIEs) by reducing or eliminating of the obstacle of paying for the interface between their EHR and the HIE. This funding opportunity expires in September 2021, so it is important that practices get the process started ASAP to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Cal-HOP will enable HIEs to provide direct assistance to individual practices and hospitals that seek to leverage a health information exchange to improve care coordination, engage with public health resources, and enhance patient outcomes through the use of comprehensive clinical data. Under Cal-HOP, Qualified Health Information Organizations (QHIOs) will support providers and hospitals in connecting their electronic health records to QHIOs to enable the exchange of admission, discharge, and transfer messages; connect to the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES); and implement advanced data exchange interfaces. The funding provided by Cal-HOP will greatly reduce the cost of onboarding to QHIOs for individual practices and hospitals. Providers are encouraged to contact their local HIO for more information at https://www.manifestmedex.org/ for-providers/. For more information about program requirements or how to begin enrollment under a QHIO, visit https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Pages/CalHOP.aspx or email HIEOnboard@dhcs.ca.gov. San Joaquin General Hospital’s Trauma Center Advances to Level II Designation San Joaquin General Hospital’s Trauma Center has been upgraded from a Level III Trauma Center to a level II designation. A Level II Trauma Center is one that can deliver and initiate definitive care for all injured patients. A Level II Trauma Center is one where a hospital demonstrates the ability to provide basic assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients. The advancement to Level
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