If you work in healthcare, chances are you have limited visibility into your patients. A primary care provider might not know when a patient visits the hospital, and vice versa. But what if all relevant data could be surfaced and shared in real time with everyone involved in a patient's care?

Watershed Health is working to make that possible. The platform enables real-time data sharing by connecting electronic health records, paper-based documentation and nontraditional systems. The goal: to help organizations better coordinate care across the continuum.

In this episode, Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya spotlights a new large-scale data-sharing initiative Watershed launched in Austin, Texas. She speaks with Watershed CEO Effie Carlson and Jeff Richardson, CEO of Integral Care, a behavioral health provider partnering with Watershed, about what the collaboration means for care coordination.

To learn more about the topics in this episode: 

• Watershed Health rolls out large-scale data sharing platform across Austin, Texas region
• Protecting sensitive patient data from interstate exchange
• Holon Solutions, Nevada HIE team up to help providers access data at the point of care
• Indigenous tribe becomes first in Michigan to tap state HIE for data sharing between tribal, non-tribal providers

This episode is sponsored by Optum Rx.