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UHIN Update 2010 - Letter from UHIN's President |
| 12/30/2010 |
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The Night after Christmas: Time to Give Thanks!
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the community for the thousands of donated hours that have been dedicated to UHIN’s 2010 Standards, Community Program Management Committee and other committee work. Convening the community to create data exchange standards is the heart of what UHIN does; it is only possible because many people see the tremendous value in this activity. By creating community-generated consensus-based standards, Utahns are able to essentially control their own rules of operation for healthcare exchanges in this wonderful state. This puts the community in charge. Thanks to everyone who helped this year!
UHIN is moving to expand our administrative services in 2011 to include tools to help payers and providers move from the current HIPAA transaction version (commonly called 4010) to the new version that will be required in 2021 (called 5010). The UHIN board of directors is pushing UHIN to continue to meet our mission of reducing health care costs by looking at a new suite of services for our members. Stay tuned!
I also want to thank those of you who have been involved in bringing up the clinical health information exchange, the cHIE. It has been a long labor, a journey strewn with complex questions, with new questions. However, the vision remains constant: how do we, as a community, work together to improve the quality of care in Utah by making more complete medical information available to the clinician at the point of care?
I am proud to say that the cHIE is gaining momentum and strength. Clinicians understand this need. Patients can directly improve the quality of their care by choosing to make more complete data available to their clinicians.
Clarification: Axolotl and Ingenix
If you are involved in the rapidly expanding clinical health information exchange (cHIE) effort you might have heard about the purchase of UHIN’s vendor, Axolotl, by Ingenix. Some people think this means that United Health Care (and potentially other payers) are now going to have illegal access to UHIN’s cHIE data. This is not true.
Axolotl does not have access to the cHIE data for any purpose outside of their responsibility to ensure smooth operations. Additionally, Ingenix also does not have any access to cHIE data. This is required in our contract and confirmed bi-annually through an independent third-party audit.
UHIN is doing everything possible to ensure that the community can trust that cHIE data is secure and being used only for authorized purposes. If you have concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact UHIN. We would be happy to explain in more depth how we are building trust into the cHIE.
Kindest regards,
Jan Root, PhD
President, CEO
Utah Health Information Network
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