A significant share of the dozens of health information exchanges in California — nine in total — recently signed off on an agreement that sets the framework for data sharing between otherwise unaffiliated providers.
According to an announcement from the California Association of Health Information Exchanges, the nine HIEs signed the California Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement, an initiative approved by the Association that permits the groups to use the federal Direct and Exchange projects to send encrypted health information over the Internet, according to California Healthline. The California Data Use Agreement is distinct from the federal version and is specifically tailored to HIEs in California.
The following organizations, including the Association of HIEs, have signed onto the effort:
— Axesson
— Dignity Health
— North Coast Health Information Network
— Orange County Partnership Regional Health Information Organization
— RAIN Live Oak HIE and Telemedicine Network
— Redwood MedNet
— San Diego Health Connect
— Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange
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Collectively, those organizations will make up the California Interoperability Committee. The group will be able to search provider data, determine better sharing methods of data, search and use medical records and exchange direct messages securely with each other, with the hope of achieving better interoperability.
Other wide-scale data sharing efforts are underway in California, chief among them the establishment of Cal INDEX, a collaborative effort between Blue Shield of California and Anthem Blue Cross to more freely but securely exchange claims and EHR data between payers and providers.
