The San Diego Beacon Collaborative (SDBC) aims to use electronic health information exchange to enable providers to improve medical care decisions and overall care quality, empower patients to engage in their own health management, and reduce unnecessary and redundant testing. Specifically, the SDBC is working to achieve six objectives:
Improve heart disease and stroke prevention
Enhance management of acute chest pain prior to and during hospitalization
Improve care for patients after hospitalization for heart disease or stroke
Increase rates of childhood and adult immunizations, as well as report data to a county registry
Expand the number of labs and clinical facilities that report diseases to the county public health department for surveillance
Reduce redundant radiology tests for patients across the SDBC
We had a vision in our head that could improve care, improve the outcomes, and really reduce costs, so I think what Beacon provides is the resources to really get to that vision.
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