Dive Brief:
- Most of Ohio residents' personal health information is being shared to some sort of electronic data exchange framework, including the state's HIE, according to a new issue brief by the Center for Health Affairs, reports EHR Intelligence.
- The state's HIE, called CliniSync, includes a wide range of health care stakeholders, including not only hospitals, physicians and long-term care facilities, but also behavioral health providers, commercial labs and public health agencies.
- The brief notes that 90% of Ohio's hospitals and more than 1,000 physicians are participating in some form of electronic data exchange, taking in the data of 87% of Ohio residents.
Dive Insight:
Ohio is having far more success with data exchange than most other states in the US. According to the brief, "Ohio's health information exchange is a micro version of what the country hopes to achieve; wherein health records follow the patient regardless of their geographic location."
That being said, the data Ohio providers can share is relatively limited, including allergy lists, care plans, care summaries, lots of pathology data and progress notes. Bringing more data on board will require interoperability levels that don't necessarily exist yet, but will be the next step.