In a joint partnership with the South East Michigan Health Information Exchange (SEMHIE), we brought our expertise on the CCD format to assist in being the first in the country to complete the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) E-Disability CCD Exchange. In this project, we and our partners, worked with local hospitals, including Henry Ford Health Systems and the Beaumont Health System, to obtain a CCD Summary of Care document from each for a given patient, and then generate a single aggregated CCD to be submitted to the SSA. This endeavor was proposed to reduce the overall approval process from an average of over 450 days of obtaining and reviewing paper charts and billing statements, to approximately 6 hours of requesting and reviewing a single CCD.

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