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Health Information Exchange Q and A with John Traeger, Enterprise Solutions Consultant

Chad Johnson
Last updated: December 11, 2013 9:00 am
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I had the pleasure of meeting John Traeger in October at Corepoint Connect 13. John works with a number of hospitals and health systems in the Northwest to set up private HIEs and to connect to various forms of external HIE organizations. His keynote presentation on private HIEs had some interesting information I thought readers of this blog would appreciate. Feel free to leave any HIE questions for John in the comments.

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How has the demand for HIE interfaces impacted IT departments at hospitals?Where is most of the work focused now: Private or Public?What are some lessons you have learned so far from implementing HIE solutions?What would be your key take-away based on your experience so far?

I had the pleasure of meeting John Traeger in October at Corepoint Connect 13. John works with a number of hospitals and health systems in the Northwest to set up private HIEs and to connect to various forms of external HIE organizations. His keynote presentation on private HIEs had some interesting information I thought readers of this blog would appreciate. Feel free to leave any HIE questions for John in the comments.

How has the demand for HIE interfaces impacted IT departments at hospitals?

John Traeger, OTB Solutions

John Traeger, OTB Solutions

The context in which we provide interfaces outside of hospital organizations is changing rapidly. There are many new regulatory and business requirements. The government and market pressures to form ACOs and HIEs have generated a high number of new participants and connections. These factors and others are creating a tsunami of interface work that is coming in at a rapid pace.

Where is most of the work focused now: Private or Public?

While there has been a considerable amount of work done on public, state and local HIEs, the private HIEs still outnumber them. Private HIEs are experiencing a considerable growth in demand for interfaces being driven by Integrated Healthcare Delivery organizations that want to capture physician “mindshare” and the patients that go along with the new care coordination model.

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The integration of formerly independent organizations also frequently involves sharing new HIS system builds to make extending patient information and physician teamwork easier. These system conversions drive a considerable amount of interface work.

What are some lessons you have learned so far from implementing HIE solutions?

Frequently, the nature of the business relationships force the provider organizations to share only the minimum amount of patient data. Centralized data repositories have turned off some provider organizations from participating for this reason. HIEs that utilize this model are also experiencing high costs to manage an ever-growing data store and often have to charge high fees that put their business model at risk.

Private HIE data connections tend to be more comprehensive than public ones, with tighter integration between systems than just sharing CCD documents on a query/response model. This often involves standing up the “traditional” set of ADT, clinical results, lab and rad interfaces, depending on the nature of the relationship and entities involved (for example, specialty clinics vs. ambulatory care vs. rural hospitals, etc.).

Also, technology matters. One private HIE implementation I worked with had this long chain of handoffs making troubleshooting particularly difficult, especially when three of the components in the data flow are opaque to the participating organizations.

What would be your key take-away based on your experience so far?

ACOs, public and private HIEs, and regulatory or market requirements are driving a massive growth in demand for community data sharing. Selecting the right strategy to keep pace with the demand and being agile enough to handle the evolving requirements is critical. A key technology strategy for success is to select a robust interface solution that makes interfaces quicker to deploy, easier to support, has less skilled resource risk, and delivers community connectivity quicker and more cost effectively. (See John’s white paper “13 Steps to Select the Right HL7 Interface Engine“)

 

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