HealthShare Exchange

12/23/2025

Happy Holidays from the team at HealthShare Exchange! We wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season.🎄

12/16/2025

Tune in to hear Dr. Brian McDonough and Palak Raval-Nelson, PhD, MPH, Health Commissioner, City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health talk about the importance of HSX data in a recently released HSX University podcast episode. This interview makes clear the critical role of HSX’s data-sharing network, serving as the data backbone of Philadelphia’s public health efforts and linking healthcare providers with essential information. Furthermore, they expand on how HSX-provided information is key to public health decisions and how data sets help them look to the future in terms of emerging health trends.

Listen in here for the full video: https://healthshareexchange.org/videos/

12/05/2025

In a recent HSX University podcast episode, Dr. Brian McDonough and Dr. Harm Scherpbier spoke with Palak Raval-Nelson, PhD, MPH, Health Commissioner, City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health! This interview lays out the need for HSX's data sharing network. HSX is the data foundation for Philadelphia's public health initiatives, and the connector between healthcare and community service providers. In addition, they talked about what she views in her current role as the biggest health concerns in the City of Philadelphia and more.

Tune in here for the full video: https://healthshareexchange.org/videos/

09/22/2025

We’re proud sponsors of MANNA’s 35th Anniversary Celebration on September 25th at The Bellevue. Join the community for an evening that blends fine dining, live entertainment, and heartfelt community impact. Proceeds fund MANNA’s delivery of medically tailored meals for those in critical need. Tickets available now at mannapa.org/cheers

09/15/2025

We’re delighted to be a sponsor for MANNA’s 35th Anniversary Celebration, a gala evening honoring our three-and-a-half decades of providing medically tailored meals and nutritional support to vulnerable neighbors in Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Venue: Grand Belle at The Bellevue, Philadelphia

Expect a decadent and entertainment-filled evening with chef-curated dinner and dessert, live performances, and more. Tickets available now at mannapa.org/cheers

08/27/2025

HSX is honored to sponsor MANNA's 35th Anniversary Celebration!

Join MANNA for an evening of impact and inspiration, featuring:
🔹 A cocktail reception with curated hors d’oeuvres
🔹 A culinary experience crafted by Philadelphia's top chefs
🔹 Special guests, live entertainment, and a tribute to MANNA’s 35 years of service

This milestone event supports MANNA’s life-saving mission to deliver nutrition to individuals facing serious illnesses. Your attendance ensures this work continues for decades to come.
🔹 Thursday, September 25th
🔹 The Bellevue Philadelphia – Cescaphe’s beautifully renovated venue

Tickets available now at mannapa.org/cheers

08/21/2025

Phillies win!! 🎉 Tuesday night our HSX team attended the Phillies game as a team building event! It was a fantastic time connecting with each other and watching the Phillies win 6-4 in a great game!

07/28/2025

During this year’s expanded board meeting experts from the City of Philadelphia, the Scattergood Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and Ben Franklin technology partners participated in the panel discussion, “Strengthening Community Health through Improved Data Sharing: Informing Health Policy to Improve Realtime Patient Care.”

Panelists:
🔹 Palak Raval-Nelson, PhD, MPH, Health Commissioner, City of Philadelphia
🔹 Joe Pyle, MA, President, Scattergood Foundation
🔹 Adam Resnick, PhD, Director, Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute
🔹 Anthony Green, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Facilitator: Greg Liptak, VP Research and Innovation, HealthShare Exchange

Watch now to hear more from the experts on how improved data sharing can improve patient care:

Informing Health Policy to Improve Realtime Patient CareMay 21st, 2025 - HSX Expanded Board Meeting

07/23/2025

Check out experts from the IBX Foundation, RWJF, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Philadelphia Health Partnership speak on a recent panel discussion “The Role of Philanthropy: Fostering Coalitions & Driving Community-Focused Initiatives in an Uncertain Policy Environment” as they explain the importance of philanthropy in times of change and how data sharing and leveraging HealthShare Exchange (i.e., HSX) would be beneficial.

Panelists:
🔹 Heather Major, Executive Director, IBX Foundation
🔹 Kathy Hempstead, Senior Policy Advisor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
🔹 Meridith Polin, Senior Officer, The Pew Fund, Health and Human Services, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Facilitator: Ann Marie Healy, Philadelphia Health Partnership

Watch now:

Fostering Coalitions & Driving Community-Focused Initiatives in an Uncertain Policy Environment

07/21/2025

This past May during our Expanded Board Meeting we hosted a panel discussion on “Government Policy Update: A Federal, State & Local Perspective.” Learn the latest in government policy impacting health information exchange and public health infrastructure.

Panelists:
🔹 David Wade – Chief of Staff, PA Governor’s Office of Transportation & Opportunity
🔹 David Horrocks – CEO, NY eHealth Collaborative (NYeC)
🔹 Greg Gierer, MPP – Principal, Health Management Associates (HMA)
Facilitated by: Michael Brunelle, Founder of GSL Public Strategies

Watch below!

May 21st, 2025 - HSX Expanded Board Meeting

05/20/2025

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow at the HSX Expanded Board meeting! Ahead of the meeting catch a preview of the feature panel discussion on informing health policy to improve real-time patient care! https://healthshareexchange.org/hsxu-webinar/panel-interview-with-dr-brian-mcdonough-april-2025/

05/19/2025

Greg Liptak, VP of Research & Innovation at HSX gave a preview of some topics that will be covered at this week's HSX Expanded Board meeting! There will be a panel featuring Anthony Green, Ph.D., Adam C. Resnick, Ph.D and more, with Greg as the moderator - you won't want to miss the exciting conversation on the future of healthcare data exchange! https://bit.ly/3Z410aG