Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and Mount Carmel Health System have committed to becoming part of CliniSync, which facilitates the sharing of patient records between providers, hospitals and health systems across the state of Ohio.
Ohio’s health information exchange has quickly been gaining steam since it launched two years ago. Two Cleveland powerhouses, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, joined earlier this year, and as of now, about 138 hospitals have committed to joining. Thirty-eight have already gone live and an additional 1,400 physicians have also signed on, according to CliniSync’s website.
The HIX also announced in June that it was working with a Cincinnati-based health information exchange called HealthBridge to connect the two exchanges.
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CliniSync claims it’s on track to become one of the largest public health information exchanges in the country in 2014. Among the services that it offers to members are encrypted email, referral management software and the ability to share medical reports, images and test results.
Wexner, which includes six hospitals and a medical school, and four-hospital system Mount Carmel have already been working together on improving access to care, controlling costs and increasing the quality and coordination of care.
The Ohio Health Information Partnership was launched in 2011 with $34.4 million in federal and state money.
