eHealth Change this week introduced that it is going to be partnering with the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability – comprising the most important nonprofit well being knowledge networks within the U.S. – in its anticipated function as a Certified Well being Data Community.
WHY IT MATTERS
As one of many nation’s oldest and largest well being data networks, eHealth Change brings 13 years of expertise to its deliberate QHIN standing below the Workplace of the Nationwide Coordinator for Well being IT’s Trusted Change Framework and Widespread Settlement, or TEFCA.
That features linking 61 regional and state well being data exchanges and 5 federal businesses, enabling change throughout greater than two dozen completely different digital well being file methods. It helps the safe change of greater than 14 billion EHR transactions yearly.
The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, in the meantime, additionally gathers a number of the nation’s greatest well being data, together with Contexture, CRISP, CyncHealth, Indiana Well being Data Change and Manifest MedEx. Collectively these HIEs and their affiliated companies join greater than 80 million data for sufferers throughout a number of states.
Working collectively on TEFCA will allow a QHIN with an enormous nationwide footprint.
“eHealth Change and CSRI’s founding well being knowledge networks have collaborated for a few years,” mentioned CSRI President Morgan Honea in an announcement.
“This potential nonprofit collaboration permits CSRI to reveal the worth of regional and state well being data exchanges throughout the nation, within the midst of different vendor-based exchanges,” added Honea, who’s additionally government VP of Denver-based Contexture, which oversees knowledge networks in Colorado and Arizona.
THE LARGER TREND
A community of networks eHealth Change connects suppliers to 5 federal businesses – Division of Veterans Affairs, Division of Protection, Indian Well being Service, Meals and Drug Administration and Social Safety Administration – in addition to 61 regional and state HIEs. It connects 75 % of all U.S. hospitals and 85% of dialysis clinics, facilitated by one frequent belief settlement and one set of APIs.
ON THE RECORD
“We’re thrilled CSRI intends to companion with eHealth Change, which suggests CSRI’s member organizations will take part with TEFCA by way of our deliberate QHIN,” mentioned Jay Nakashima, government director of eHealth Change, in an announcement. “We intention to supply a seamless expertise for organizations resembling CSRI to take part on this federally endorsed framework for affected person knowledge sharing.”
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