A group of national leaders in HIEs announced their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI) https://www.theCSRI.org, with the nation’s largest and most robust nonprofit healthcare data organizations.
The vision for CSRI is to improve individual and population health across the nation through robust health data innovation and interoperability.
The six organizations are all successful nonprofit HIEs with robust technology infrastructure, data stewardship expertise, and far reaching data networks. They serve as health data utilities for their state’s healthcare providers, health plans, Medicaid agencies, and public health departments.
The founding members of CSRI are:
- CRISP (Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia)
- CORHIO (Colorado Regional Health Information Organization)
- CyncHealth (Nebraska and Iowa)
- Health Current (Arizona)
- Indiana Health Information Exchange (Indiana)
- Manifest MedEx (California )
Specifically, the mission of CSRI is to strengthen the nation’s data exchange capabilities by:
- Developing solutions that providers, health plans, Medicaid programs, and public health departments can use across state lines and for federal initiatives
- Advancing initiatives that promote robust and scalable health data exchange nationwide
- Delivering insights so federal agencies will be able to make critical decisions, relieve administrative burden, and accelerate innovation
CSRIs nonprofit organizations have delivered critical and timely services and data to support public health departments with COVID-19 response over the last several months to include:
- Supporting test ordering and scheduling with state and county clinics
- Identifying high risk patients for outreach leveraging predictive analytics
- Tracking and forecasting hospital bed capacity
- Developing dashboards to bring together test results, mortality, and hospitalization data
- Supporting contact tracing by matching test results with patient contact information
- Developing alerts and reports for providers when patients test positive for COVID-19