When discussions began to establish a health information exchange (HIE) at the Kittitas Valley Community Health Information Network (KVCHIN), the HIE was little more than a pipe dream.
[18] Performance monitoring has evolved over the past 20 years and has been termed in the literature as: Community Health Monitoring Systems (CHMS), Community Health Information Networks (CHINs), Community Health Information Management Systems, Community Health Information Systems (CHIS), Community Health Report Cards, Community Care Networks, and Health Information Networks, [19] among other derivative appellations with a similar focus on community health.
Partnered with Axolotl since 1999, HealthBridge has become the largest, most advanced and financially successful community health information network in the United States.
Continued failure to achieve this value could well relegate HIEs to the dust bin of history, alongside the community health information networks (CHINs) of the last decade.
A community health information network (CHIN) linking hospitals and clinicians can amount to millions of dollars in licensing fees to the vendor, hardware costs for the communications devices and servers, and expertise to install the software and train staff.
About HealthBridge HealthBridge, founded in 1997 as a community effort to enhance the ability to share health information electronically in the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky tri-state area, is the nation's largest and most successful community health information network.
Four Stark exceptions are potentially applicable to establishing an interoperable EHR network: 1) a $300 nonmonetary compensation exception for referring physicians; 2) a $25 exception for on-campus benefits provided to hospital medical staff members; 3) an exception for payments by a physician for items or services at fair market value; and 4) a community health information network exception.
