C3HIE, a nonprofit, group well being data alternate in Texas, will function the expertise basis for the Texas Group of Rural & Group Hospitals (TORCH) clinically built-in community (CIN), which can present rural hospitals in Texas with information infrastructure and instruments for increasing care high quality and entry.
TORCH CIN was launched in 2021 to create a high-performing statewide community of aligned suppliers to have interaction in medical and monetary integration applications, particularly to take part in value-based care initiatives and allow revolutionary strategies for sharing contractual threat amongst contributors. It has 27 hospitals and 51 clinics and value-based contracts with United Healthcare, Amerigroup and Aetna.
By way of this effort, C3HIE shall be including greater than 20 new hospitals to its community and increasing the HIE’s attain into rural healthcare communities in Texas. This CIN infrastructure will allow rural suppliers throughout the state to determine greatest practices and enhance care coordination and high quality, C3HIE stated.
Along with offering the info infrastructure, C3HIE will allow information aggregation capabilities for the brand new TORCH CIN, which may even be a part of the Aligning Know-how, by Linking Interoperable Programs (ATLIS) Medicaid high quality fee program.
“TORCH CIN is proud to companion with C3HIE as we join rural hospitals and equip them with the info infrastructure and instruments they should present higher look after the communities we collectively serve,” stated John Henderson, president and CEO of TORCH, in a press release.
“CINs are the way forward for healthcare, and we’re comfortable to companion with TORCH to strengthen rural hospitals and clinics to make sure that Texans have entry to sustainable healthcare of their communities,” stated Jim Hoag, COO of C3HIE, in a press release. “C3HIE is ready to mixture essential information from CIN hospitals and clinics, and incorporate affected person well being data from regional companions, making a extra complete and related care expertise.”
Leveraging one connection, suppliers within the TORCH CIN will be capable of have real-time entry to a longitudinal affected person file with the flexibility to view key parts similar to lab outcomes – minimizing the chance of duplicate testing – in addition to the flexibility to leverage information from their present techniques. The C3HIE platform may even provide full affected person information transparency with a Grasp Affected person Index (MPI).
“C3HIE’s long-standing dedication to rural healthcare ensures that even the smallest communities in Texas may have entry to the identical excessive requirements of care and innovation as their city counterparts,” Hoag added. “Collectively, we’re making certain that Texans in each group have entry to high-quality healthcare and stronger native healthcare techniques.”
