Billed as the nation’s largest health information exchange organization, the Indiana HIE (IHIE) is poised to scale up and to expand its business plans, which includes the launch of a new professional services organization to serve other HIEs.
The HIE counts 10 million patients, more than 19,000 physicians, more than 80 facilities among its stakeholders. IHIE is responsible for what its executives call “an ocean of information.” That means more than four billion pieces of clinical data in the repository. The exchange delivers three million health transactions daily.
IHIE works with hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics and physician practices throughout Indiana to ensure health information is where it needs to be, when it needs to be there to help improve care coordination and patient outcomes.
A fundamental aspect of IHIE’s services, officials said, is aggregating clinical data through interface integrations with healthcare providers to support applications such as the DOCS4DOCS service, Quality Health First Program and the Indiana Network for Patient Care. The health information exchange, as well as these clinical applications, were developed by the Regenstrief Institute, a world-renowned medical informatics research organization, and are supported and delivered by IHIE.
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