Major HIEs in Indiana, Ohio Begin Bidirectional Data Sharing Across State Lines

Healthcare Informatics: The Indianapolis-based Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) and the Cincinnati, Ohio-based HealthBridge, two of the largest HIEs in the nation, are now sharing data in both directions across state lines.

Since September 2009, IHIE has sent clinical results to HealthBridge, a service line of Ohio-based The Health Collaborative, for delivery to their physicians. This information is provided when their patients seek care at locations in Indiana. It includes dozens of separate data feeds, so that lab and radiology results, for example, and other clinical reports and summaries are provided to these ordering physicians in a timely and standardized way, according to officials.

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