HEAL Awardee Summaries - Hudson Valley Region
- Greater Hudson Valley Regional Health Information Organization, Inc CIDE (GHV-RHIO)
- Hudson Information Technology for Community Health (HITCH)
- Hudson Valley Health IT Program Project
- Taconic Health Information Network & Community (THINC)
Greater Hudson Valley Regional Health Information Organization, Inc CIDE (GHV-RHIO)
Contact: Theresa Maloney (TMaloney@middletownchc.org)
Project Summary: The GHV-RHIO will create a Clinical Information Data Exchange (CIDE), utilizing a powerful centralized database model and data synchronization engine. The GHV-RHIO is providing EMR, e-prescribing and data exchange capabilities. All systems are web-based using web-native tools. Data exchanged includes prescriptions, formulary data, medication history, laboratory orders and results.
Key Stakeholders: HUDSON VALLEY - Orange Regional Medical Center; St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital; Middletown Community Health Center; Medical Diagnostic Group, ORMC Physician Group, North Star Medical Group, Michael Wodka, DPM, Orange Urgent Care, P.C., Ramapo Ophthalmology, Warwick Eye Center, North State Cardiology.
Hudson Information Technology for Community Health (HITCH)
Contacts: Anne Nolon (anolon@hrhcare.org)
Project Summary: HITCH is a collaboration of community health centers, their affiliated clinicians, Hudson Health Plan, and the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) for the purpose of advancing the adoption and effective use of an EHR and other health IT tools to improve quality, care coordination and health outcomes for patients. Hudson River HealthCare and Open Door Family Medical Centers, both federally qualified health centers, both with consumer-driven Boards of Directors, provide care to over 80,000 patients throughout the Hudson Valley. Annually, 110 primary care providers serve low income and uninsured populations through over 350,000 visits at 18 sites throughout the region.
HITCH is deploying a comprehensive, interoperable EHR system with registry-like features specifically designed to support the Care Model, manage both individual and population-based health, and report nationally-recognized quality outcome data on preventive services. Accurate, clinically-based QARR data will be generated for reporting to Hudson Health Plan and NYS DOH.
Hudson Valley Health IT Program Project
Contacts: A. John Blair, III, MD (JBlair@taconicipa.com)
Project Summary: Funding for this project will go towards installation of software and hardware for EHR and for connectivity between a health information exchange and the THINC RHIO. The funds will also go to training physician participants, acquiring technical support for the system configuration, installation and testing, e-prescribing, migrating patient records and data into EHRs, supporting quality measurement and reporting, and, assessing the impact of health IT adoption on quality and safety, and reporting same.
Taconic Health Information Network & Community (THINC)
Contacts: Susan Stuard (sstuard@ThincRhio.org)
Website: http://www.thincrhio.org/
Project Summary: THINC RHIO is dedicated to improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care for the benefit of the people of the Hudson Valley region of New York. The primary purpose of the THINC RHIO is to advance the use of health IT through the sponsorship of a secure HIE network, the adoption and use of interoperable EHRs and the implementation of population health improvement activities, including public health surveillance and reporting, pay for performance, public reporting and other quality improvement initiatives. THINC RHIO is governed by a multi-stakeholder Board of Directors and comprised of a broad range of stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
For its HEAL 1 project, THINC RHIO will implement certified EHRs for up to 1,000 physicians in the Hudson Valley region to achieve interoperable EHR adoption and to demonstrate a model to support small to medium size physician offices in health IT adoption.
For its HEAL 5 project, THINC RHIO will enhance the existing Hudson Valley Health Information Exchange to deliver information directly to the point of care, integrate data from the NYS Medicaid system, and support the automation of public health reporting. THINC RHIO will also implement a Quality Reporting Service (QRS) in the Hudson Valley. The QRS will facilitate transmission and aggregation of quality performance measures directly from physicians’ EHRs and hospital information systems. The QRS will connect with multiple certified-EHR systems and collect, analyze, aggregate, generate reports, and submit quality performance measures across providers, practices, and care delivery organizations to enable community-wide benchmarking of health care delivery.
THINC RHIO is also participating in NYeC’s federal Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) project to demonstrate exchange of summary quality measures from EHR systems as part of the evolving NHIN.
Key Stakeholders: HUDSON VALLEY - Taconic Independent Practice Association; Kingston Hospital; Benedictine Hospital; St. Francis Hospital; Vassar Brothers Medical Center; Northern Dutchess Hospital; Putnam Hospital Center; Quest Diagnostics; Laboratory Corporation of America; United Health Plan, MVP Healthcare, Oxford Healthcare, Aetna Healthcare, Capital Districts Physician Health Plan, CIGNA, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hudson Health Plan.
