Texas-Primarily based C3HIE to Assist Rural Clinically Built-in Community

C3HIE, a nonprofit, neighborhood well being info alternate in Texas, will function the expertise basis for the Texas Group of Rural & Neighborhood Hospitals (TORCH) clinically built-in community (CIN), which is able to present rural hospitals in Texas with knowledge 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 interact in medical and monetary integration applications, particularly to take part in value-based care initiatives and allow progressive strategies for sharing contractual threat amongst individuals. It has 27 hospitals and 51 clinics and value-based contracts with United Healthcare, Amerigroup and Aetna. 

By means 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 finest practices and improve care coordination and high quality, C3HIE mentioned.

Along with offering the information infrastructure, C3HIE will allow knowledge aggregation capabilities for the brand new TORCH CIN, which may also be a part of the Aligning Know-how, by Linking Interoperable Methods (ATLIS) Medicaid high quality cost program. 

“TORCH CIN is proud to associate with C3HIE as we join rural hospitals and equip them with the information infrastructure and instruments they should present higher take care of the communities we collectively serve,” mentioned John Henderson, president and CEO of TORCH, in an announcement. 

“CINs are the way forward for healthcare, and we’re completely satisfied to associate with TORCH to strengthen rural hospitals and clinics to make sure that Texans have entry to sustainable healthcare of their communities,” mentioned Jim Hoag, COO of C3HIE, in an announcement. “C3HIE is ready to combination essential knowledge from CIN hospitals and clinics, and incorporate affected person well being info from regional companions, making a extra complete and linked care expertise.”

Leveraging one connection, suppliers within the TORCH CIN will be capable to have real-time entry to a longitudinal affected person document with the power to view key components akin to lab outcomes – minimizing the chance of duplicate testing – in addition to the power to leverage knowledge from their present techniques. The C3HIE platform may also supply full affected person knowledge transparency with a Grasp Affected person Index (MPI).

“C3HIE’s long-standing dedication to rural healthcare ensures that even the smallest communities in Texas can 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 neighborhood have entry to high-quality healthcare and stronger native healthcare techniques.”