Health information exchange planned for DC's Medicaid patients

The nation's capital is launching a new health information exchange to improve care for Medicaid patients while reducing costs by weeding out fraud and inefficiency. The Department of Health Care Finance, or DHCF, is Washington, D.C.'s Medicaid agency that pays for the medical care of about 150,000 low-income beneficiaries, including the city's homeless population. With the help of federal funding, DHCF has awarded a $7 million contract to MedPlus, the health IT subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, to implement the new health information exchange, dubbed Patient Data Hub.

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