Benefits of Joining

A secure, electronic health information exchange like Central PA Connect provides many benefits for both clinicians and patients. As patients see multiple providers at a variety of health-care facilities, we make managing care more efficient by offering a single source of comprehensive patient data. Patient visits become more productive and unnecessary tests can be avoided, resulting in greater peace of mind and satisfaction for patients and reducing costs.

Providers have immediate access to patient medical information, such as lab results, allergy information, current medications, past hospitalizations, and other crucial information that is important to know when making a clinical decision. By joining Central PA Connect, providers have access to all health information organizations.

Services

Central PA Connect offers various options for data sharing, including:

• Clinical Data Exchange
• Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Sharing
• Discrete sharing of orders and results for lab, radiology and select cardiology
• Discrete sharing of clinical notes (i.e. office visit notes, discharge summaries, ED notes)
• ADT - Encounter Notification Alerting services (Inpatient, ED, & Post-Acute Long Term Care)
• Registry reporting via the Public Health Gateway (PHG)
• Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
• Pennsylvania Immunization Electronic Registry System (PIERS)
• Electronic Lab Reporting
• Access to and integration with PA Navigate
• Education on HIE workflow
• Direction on patient facing materials
• Privacy program support to include management of patient opt-out function
• Digital certificate services (monitoring and maintenance)

Policies & Procedures

Central PA Connect HIE Policies:

• Adverse security event reporting
• Authorized users & use
• Data provider and recipient
• Services
• Super protected data

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Policies:

• Acceptable use of electronic resources
• Access controls of information assets
• Breach notification
• Disclosure of protected health information
• Safeguarding confidential information

Contact Us

Keith Cromwell

Central PA Connect

Senior Program Manager

717-544-6403

keith@centralpaconnect.org