Secure Exchange Solutions has been recognized by CIOReview Magazine as the recipient of “Top 50 Healthcare Solution Companies – 2020,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the CIOReview research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Dan Kazzaz, CEO.

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Bending Healthcare’s Cost Curve With Ai

Dan Kazzaz, CEO

The value-based care model makes access to complete clinical information critical to both payers and providers, and requires a thorough understanding of payer and clinical guidelines. Evaluating clinical orders in real time delivers cost-effective treatments and improves patient care. Improving the quality of patient care while controlling costs is an enduring challenge. Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) is proving both can be done, by combining secure messaging and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to increase the speed and accuracy of real-time decision support.

SES provides interoperable, secure, cloud-based clinical exchange technology for peer-to-peer messaging. SES uses Direct transport to maximize connectivity and reduce risk while transmitting clinical data. Direct is widely used for provider-to-provider communications. SES leverages this widespread adoption to improve payer-to-provider exchanges, resulting in reduced implementation costs, lower technology and financial risks, greater data accuracy, and accelerated data exchange across disparate systems.

The company’s newest application relies on AI to ingest clinical policy and procedure guidelines and query medical records. The appropriate utilization and/or approval of treatments is identified by automating the discovery and analysis of critical insights. This revolutionary approach makes it possible for both the provider and the payer to evaluate documentation in near real time and is easily embedded in their respective workflows.

“Healthcare demands the latest technologies for transforming care delivery, but the complexity of reviewing and sharing sensitive clinical information requires a marriage of sophisticated techniques and industry standards, otherwise the cost of implementation is too high,” says Dan Kazzaz, CEO, SES.

Vibra Healthcare, a leading specialty acute care and medical rehabilitation hospital, is one example of SES clinical data sharing in action. Vibra’s team of highly trained clinicians specialize in rehabilitating patients suffering from strokes, multiple traumas, major orthopedic, neurologic, cardiac, and respiratory conditions. The challenge: accelerate clinical data exchange across Vibra’s 18-state nationwide network of 38 specialty hospitals, transitional care units/facilities and hospital-based outpatient physical therapy locations.

The solution: implement SES to improve the coordination of acute care delivery, integrate care pathways, care management and transitions of care by speeding up the secure exchange of clinical information between Vibra’s facilities and external providers. Vibra’s rapidly growing network of specialty care providers are currently delivering enhanced patient follow-up and improved patient outcomes using SES. The next step is to integrate AI technology to resolve the tedious, labor-intensive processes associated with manual chart reviews. To learn more about information exchange and the great work being done at Vibra Healthcare, contact William Myers, Director, Health Information Exchange. (BMyers@ vibrahealth.com or 717.610.1092).

“Vibra is realizing the advantages of integrating our solutions into their processes,” says Kazzaz. “They’re dealing with complex care issues across a large network that requires a coordinated and integrated approach to acute care delivery.”

Vibra is but one of many providers experiencing the benefits of SES software. SES is advancing patient-centered care across many of the largest healthcare ecosystems. SES customers include major health plans, 1,500 hospitals, and 325,000 providers. SES is connected with 2 million trust community participants, and over 60 million patients. “Thousands of providers leverage our service to exchange critical information. Secure clinical data exchange and real-time decision support improves care, quality, cost and performance,” says Kazzaz. “Providers and payers adopting our AI solution realize immediate operational efficiencies and an enhanced clinical data exchange and decision-making process – resulting in better quality care and reduced risk exposure,” adds Kazzaz.

By embracing technology and industry standards, SES is transforming healthcare information exchange and improving quality of care delivery. Providers and payers experience improved patient care, optimized care transitions, faster provider-plan exchange, reduced reliance on costly services, safeguarded data and improved revenue cycle management. “We’re committed to reimagining clinical information exchange to deliver improved patient experiences and a more effective data exchange process across the healthcare continuum,” says Kazzaz.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 72: South Shore Hospital with Donald McGruder

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

For the 72nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital. We kick off this episode by discussing how South Shore Hospital is positioning itself in the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability. Next, we discuss how interoperability influences the hospital’s strategies and operations. McGruder then talks about what drove the decision to work with Secure Exchange Solutions and the challenges they were looking to address for clinical exchange services. Then we take a look at South Shore’s top use cases to discuss how Secure Exchange Solutions helps them achieve their operational and clinical business objectives.

We then move on to a more personal note as McGruder discusses his work with the South Side of Chicago Collaboration – detailing the program, his role, and the outcomes. Next, we talk about the patient stories from the Collaboration and how Secure Exchange Solutions has been supporting this effort. Then we look forward and discuss the next steps South Shore is planning for enhancing interoperability and patient care. Lastly, McGruder shares the best piece of advice he’s been given in his career and passes along some advice to healthcare organizations looking to improve their own interoperability and patient care.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

• How is the hospital positioning itself in the rapidly evolving healthcare interoperability landscape?

• How does interoperability influence South Shore Hospital’s strategies and operations?

• Talk about the decision to work with Secure Exchange Solutions for clinical exchange services. What drove the decision and what were the specific challenges you were looking to address?

• What are a few of South Shore’s top use cases and how does Secure Exchange Solutions help you achieve your operational and clinical business objectives?

• Talk to us about your work with the South Side of Chicago Collaboration. Can you describe the program, your role, and the outcomes?

• What are some of the patient stories from the Collaboration and what’s Secure Exchange Solutions’ role in supporting this effort?

• Looking ahead, what are the next steps for South Shore in enhancing interoperability and patient care?

• What advice would you give to other healthcare organizations looking to improve interoperability and patient care?

• What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given in your career?

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

Secure Exchange Solutions DirectTrust® Accreditations Reinforce Commitment to Industry Excellence

Thursday, September 26, 2024

ROCKVILLE, Md., Secure Exchange Solutions (SES), a Centauri Health Solutions company and leading provider of interoperable, cloud-based clinical data exchange technologies, announced today it achieved full re-accreditation through DirectTrust® accreditation for Health Information Service Providers (HISP), Certificate Authority (CA), Registration Authority (RA), and HIPAA Privacy and Security. DirectTrust accreditation is the gold standard in the industry, recognizing organizations that have exemplified excellence in HIPAA, privacy, and security compliance standards while meeting rigorous policy requirements.

"DirectTrust HISP, CA, RA, and HIPAA Privacy and Security accreditations ensure that an organization has established and upheld a superior level of trust for its stakeholders," said Lee Barrett, Commission Executive Director, DirectTrust. "Attaining these accreditations demonstrates Secure Exchange Solutions' full commitment to maintaining the highest standards in privacy, security, and operational efficiency when it comes to the secure exchange of health information."

DirectTrust's accreditation and certification programs are governed by the organization's Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and set the foundational requirements for measuring an organization's ability to meet/align with federal and state healthcare reform mandates such as HIPAA/HITECH, 21st Century Cures Act, TEFCA and more. In addition, these programs ensure that healthcare organizations meet or exceed digital identity guidelines like NIST SP 800-63 across the areas of trust, privacy, security, cybersecurity, breach handling, confidentiality, best practices, procedures and assets.

As a founding DirectTrust member, SES leverages the Direct Standard® to facilitate HIPAA-compliant clinical data exchange for more than 486,000 subscribers, supporting over 127,000 provider organizations and 1,500 hospitals and health systems nationwide.

"The DirectTrust re-accreditation reaffirms our commitment to excellence in safeguarding trusted healthcare information exchange," said Adam Apatoff, Chief Legal Officer. "As an interoperability leader, we meet the highest standards for trust, security, and privacy, all critical to healthcare and essential to accelerating network growth and use case innovation."

SES Direct includes access to an integrated HISP, Registration Authority, and Certificate Authority. It is a core component of the broader SES clinical exchange platform, an innovative solution suite that optimizes patient care coordination, referrals, and health event monitoring while supporting nationwide healthcare information sharing.

SES drives healthcare innovation through collaborative partnerships that empower providers with essential solutions and information for optimal patient care. SES will showcase innovative use cases that demonstrate the value of Direct Secure Messaging for early detection and timely interventions for complex chronic conditions, such as chronic kidney disease and diabetic retinopathy, during the 2024 DirectTrust Annual Conference, September 22-25 in St. Louis, Missouri.

To learn more about DirectTrust, please visit DirectTrust.org.

Top 50 Healthcare Solution Companies – 2020

Company
Secure Exchange Solutions

Management
Dan Kazzaz, CEO

Description
Secure Exchange Solutions maintains its standards for seamless, scalable, secured connectivity across organizational boundaries. As an industry-leading health information technology provider, the company protects, streamlines, and delivers sensitive and critical health care information while ensuring compliance and improving efficiency and quality. Hospitals, health systems, physicians, health plans, and channel partners rely on Secure Exchange Solutions for secure integrated communications that expand their reach and empower them to improve patient care. Their products accelerate healthcare communications, enhance the quality of care, optimize care transitions, speed up payments, and reduce reliance on costly fax, courier, and express mail services

Secure Exchange Solutions Bending Healthcare’s Cost Curve With Ai