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Informing decisions across
the network
Data integrity is a significant factor in EHN’s success. As a Clinically
Integrated Network (CIN), we use data integrated strategies to help
achieve our mission.
Our focus as a CIN is to make patient care
comprehensive, efficient and cost-effective. Data
informs our decisions across the organization.
According to Leon Chan, Senior Systems Analyst,
EHN, “At end of the day, all decisions of leaders,
stakeholders, providers are only as good as the
data we put into our system. A high level of data
integrity is an absolute must for the work do.”
conventions, different ways for handling data,
different systems, etc. Imagine having to load all
that disparate data into a single platform, which is
what we are having to do with Arcadia. If we didn’t
have Arcadia, we wouldn’t be able to make sense of
that data. It allows us to compare apples to apples.
Our teams know which high-risk patients we can
best impact and which gaps we can help close.
Arcadia: our chosen solution
Epic supports our patient populations
Arcadia is our chosen solution for ensuring
data integrity. In general, data integrity can be a
challenge for any CIN. CINs partner with multiple
hospitals, independent practices Skilled Nursing
Facilities, and payor organizations, and all these
different sources have different file naming
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) of choice for
all our hospital partners (Overlake Medical Center
& Clinics, EvergreenHealth, Snoqualmie Valley
Hospital) is Epic. As such, it is the data source that
supports most of our patient populations. We
rely on the Epic front-end users—any providers
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