eHealth Exchange this week announced that it will partner with the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability — which includes the largest nonprofit health data networks in the United States — on the intended role. is a Qualified Health Information Network.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
As one of the nation’s largest and oldest health information networks, eHealth Exchange brings 13 years of experience to its planned QHIN status under the Office of the National Coordinator for the Information Exchange Framework. Trust and IT General Agreement, or TEFCA.
That includes linking 61 state and regional health information exchanges and five federal agencies, enabling the exchange of more than two dozen different electronic health record systems. It supports the secure exchange of more than 14 billion EHR transactions annually.
Meanwhile, the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability also collects some of the nation’s largest health information, including Contexture, CRISP, CyncHealth, Indiana Health Information Exchange and Manifest MedEx. Along with those HIEs and their affiliated services, connect more than 80 million records for patients in several states.
Working together on TEFCA will allow QHIN to have a wide footprint across the country.
CSRI President Morgan Honea said in a statement: “eHealth Exchange and CSRI’s founding health data networks have been collaborating for many years.
“This potential nonprofit partnership allows CSRI to demonstrate the value of state and regional health information exchange nationally, among other provider-based exchanges,” Honea added. , he is also the vice president of operations for Denver-based Contexture, which oversees data networks in Colorado and Arizona.
TREND TO BIGGER
A network of eHealth Exchange networks connects providers with five federal agencies – Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Indian Health Service, Food and Drug Administration and Social Security Administration associations – as well as 61 regional and state HIEs. It connects 75% of all US hospitals and 85% of dialysis clinics, backed by a common trust agreement and a set of APIs.
ON PROFILE
Jay Nakashima, chief executive officer of eHealth Exchange, said: “We are delighted that CSRI intends to partner with eHealth Exchange, which means that CSRI member institutions will engage with TEFCA through TEFCA. QHIN according to our plan”. “We look forward to providing a seamless experience for organizations like CSRI to participate in this federally validated framework for sharing patient data.”
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