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Validating Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity data

Gary Lapon
June 29, 2021
Capturing complete and accurate data on sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) is essential to ensuring LGBTQIA+ patients receive the care they need and deserve. It impacts everything from the provision of appropriate care at the patient level...

Relevant Health Homes moves to Foothold

Jacob Hodes and Brandon Hamilton
February 10, 2021
We have some big news!
Our beloved care management platform, Relevant Health Homes (RHH), is moving to Foothold Technology, along with the team that supports it. As part of the move, RHH will soon have a new name: Foothold Care Management. Our health...

Get ahead of vaccine rollout with Relevant

Aneri Barvalia
February 5, 2021
In recent months, many community health centers across the country have quickly shifted gears to begin immunizing staff, and increasingly patients, with two newly approved COVID-19 vaccines. Their efforts have not gone unnoticed - the Biden Administration...

Using Population Explorer to identify patients needing follow-up

David Squires, Amber Lin
May 18, 2020
Among the tremendous pressures that health centers face during the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to ensure access to critical services, including prescription refills and lab tests. For many centers, site closures, transitions to telehealth, and staff cutbacks have made this more challenging.
For health centers that currently use Relevant, we’d like to highlight some ways staff can use the Population Explorer tool to identify patients in need of follow-up.

Coronavirus tests, positives, and deaths by state

Brandon Hamilton
April 2, 2020
We've put together an interactive data visualization to aide exploration of some of the data coming about COVID-19 infections in the US.

A COVID-19 risk model for health centers

Relevant
March 24, 2020
Health centers have been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. They’re canceling many non-urgent visits and shifting to telehealth where possible – while also transforming into testing facilities for a highly contagious disease. They’re in dire need of tests, PPE, and emergency funding.
Several of the health centers we work with have asked for a way to identify patients who may be at high risk of developing severe illness as a result of COVID-19. Over the past week, we’ve built a new risk model in our analytics platform to address this need.

Maimonides adopts Relevant's Health Home platform

Relevant
January 22, 2020
We're pleased to announce that Maimonides Medical Center has selected Relevant's care management platform to support its Health Home program!
Maimonides has been at the forefront of developing collaborative, community-based models of care for Brooklyn's Medicaid population, and we look forward to supporting its work as these models evolve over the next several years.

Transforming messy EHR data into clean, reusable concepts

Hannah Mandel
July 11, 2019
Although the data in your EHR can offer significant insights, its primary purpose is to support patient care and billing, rather than analysis. If you’ve ever attempted to analyze EHR data, this has likely become apparent—cleaning and isolating concepts...

Leaving SuccessEHS? Some things to keep in mind

Daniel Wilson
May 7, 2019
We’ve heard from several health centers that SuccessEHS, the electronic health record we’ve known and (mostly) loved, is being discontinued.

Open Door, El Rio win Davies Awards

Jacob Hodes
April 25, 2019
Congratulations to two of our customers, Open Door Family Medical Centers and El Rio Community Health Center, on winning 2018 Davies Awards!