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The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization and Health Current in Arizona have completed a merger they initiated last year, they announced Tuesday.
The two health information exchanges will now operate as a combined not-for-profit regional HIE dubbed Contexture. CORHIO and Health Current disclosed plans to merge in late 2020 and signed an affiliation agreement earlier this year. Contexture will serve roughly 1,800 healthcare organizations in Colorado and Arizona.
Bringing CORHIO and Health Current together will allow Contexture to more efficiently deliver their existing HIE services, according to the two organizations. The new company also will establish an innovation team dedicated to developing new data and analytics services. The innovation team will initially focus on creating new tools and services for state programs such as Medicaid and public health agencies.
A case study in HIE consolidation
A case study in HIE consolidation
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In 2015, Health Current counted 75 payers, providers and other organizations as part of its health information exchange. Today, the Arizona-based not-for-profit includes more than 850 healthcare groups and counting as part of its network.
Health Current’s more than tenfold growth over the past six years can be credited to a switch to a new technology platform that allowed it to scale its participant base and send real-time updates to providers, said CEO Melissa Kotrys, who also chairs the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative, the national association of HIEs.
New HIE consortium to develop data-sharing solutions, initiatives amid pandemic
Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate for federal support to drive data sharing amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The push toward interoperability is not new. But amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for secure and efficient data sharing has become more urgent than ever.
To help facilitate greater interoperability during the once-in-a-century public health crisis, six health information exchanges have created a consortium.
Dubbed the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, the group has three main goals, said Morgan Honea, CEO of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), one of the consortium’s founding members. These are knowledge and technology infrastructure sharing, joint service offerings for the government and marke
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Nearly $20 million in new investments will support opportunities to track vaccination progress, help clinicians pinpoint and contact high-risk patients, and coordinate appointments for patients due to receive the second dose of the vaccine. (Getty/Meyer & Meyer)
As the nation continues to ramp up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, providers will need to track patients due to receive the second dose of the vaccine and better identify high-risk patients.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, acting through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making major investments to help increase data sharing between health information exchanges (HIEs) and immunization information systems.