Rewriting the Playbook on HIEs for Improved Patient, Clinical and Business Outcomes

Brian Yeaman, MD, CEO, Yeaman & Associates and Coordinated Care Health Network, and Ray George, Director, Business Development, Nuance.  Early in 2017, Coordinated Care of Oklahoma (CCO), a multi-state HIE, announced its dissolution and the launch of Coordinated Care Health Network (CCHN), a nationwide secure data exchange network with image sharing. Like many HIE organizations, CCO struggled with governance and organizational issues that challenged operations, sustainability and cost-containment.  Today, the newly formed CCHN is a unique service network focused on empowering health care providers to improve care and outcomes via secure, HIPAA compliant, data access and exchange.  Built on a cloud-based imaging sharing network, CCHN claims no third party rights to client data. Instead, like a cellular network, CCHN allows clients to subscribe to modular services in a way that scales to work within the healthcare organizations’ referral region to better enhance patient care and improve the patient’s experience.