As health information exchanges have sought ways to achieve financial sustainability, the potential to take the data they have and essentially sell it, or run analysis services based upon it, back to the medical community has been bandied about for some time.
And now HealthInfoNet, an HIE in Maine, claims it is the first in America to do just that.
“Customers can use the analytics and predictive tools to study market share, clinical performance, population health and patient risk, all in real-time,” Healthcare IT News editor-at-large Bernie Monegain reported on Wednesday.
HealthInfoNet, in fact, already has contracts with five hospitals and Maine’s Pioneer ACO to use the new predictive analytics package that HealthInfoNet developed in conjunction with Palo Alto, CA-based HBI Solutions.
“From the trials that took place before the contracts were signed and the work the predictive analytics make possible today,” Monegain explained, “it's a model that's mighty.”
It’s also one that could become contagious — many HIEs around the country are working to sculpt business models that make them finically sustainable. And some, like HealthShare Montana, have considered a similar approach to analytics.
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