Portland, Ore.-based OCHIN and Cincinnati-based OSIS, two nonprofit organizations with mixed well being IT operations that assist greater than 39,000 suppliers serving over 9.3 million sufferers at neighborhood well being facilities nationwide, have entered into a proper partnership.
Though OSIS will turn out to be an entirely owned subsidiary of OCHIN, the organizations careworn that their manufacturers, operations, governance constructions, and nonprofit statuses will proceed to be impartial. OCHIN will stay targeted on Epic operations and collaborative members, and OSIS will proceed to assist NextGen for its members and taking part well being facilities.
Each established practically 25 years in the past, OCHIN and OSIS stated they’re dedicated to assembly members the place they’re, on their respective EHR platform of selection.
OCHIN’s Epic-based community now reaches greater than 6.3 million sufferers by means of greater than 34,000 suppliers at over 2,000 healthcare supply websites nationwide. These embrace rural hospitals, rural well being clinics, neighborhood well being facilities, tribal well being organizations, school-based clinics, correctional services, behavioral well being suppliers, dental clinics, public well being departments, and HIV/AIDS care organizations.
Considered one of NextGen Healthcare’s largest clients, OSIS handle over 136 well being facilities, the place its options and analytics instruments assist medical, dental, and behavioral well being companies.
Whereas some present OSIS members might have curiosity in transitioning from their NextGen EHR to OCHIN Epic, others will stay on OSIS NextGen or can be free to pick out a distinct platform and vendor in the event that they select primarily based on their particular wants. By means of this partnership, OSIS members may have entry to extra service choices not presently out there, similar to workforce assist.
One other aim of the partnership is producing operational financial savings and manufacturing efficiencies by means of improved third-party contract pricing negotiations and value benefits derived from economies of scale. Harnessing this collective power is important to optimize and advocate for neighborhood well being facilities that immediately are tasked with delivering each high-quality and high-volume care regardless of insufficient funding, OCHIN stated.
The partnership additionally gives the chance to carry higher neighborhood well being middle illustration to nationwide well being fairness analysis and advocacy by augmenting the OCHIN-led ADVANCE Medical Analysis Community and voluntarily contributing to practice-based analysis and innovation powered by the biggest assortment of de-identified neighborhood well being knowledge within the nation.
“On the coronary heart of the brand new OCHIN and OSIS partnership is a shared perception that immediately’s healthcare system requires revolutionary approaches to connecting and reworking entry to care,” stated Abby Sears, president and CEO of OCHIN, in an announcement. “By standing collectively and becoming a member of forces, OCHIN and OSIS could make an excellent higher and extra enduring impression for the suppliers, sufferers, and communities we serve.”
OCHIN will proceed to assist rural hospitals following its 2023 growth into acute care.”OSIS and OCHIN have concurrently been working to sort out the identical points that impression our Neighborhood Well being Middle Neighborhood. This new partnership permits us to stay impartial however share sources for extra environment friendly drawback fixing throughout the nation,” stated Jeff Lowrance, CEO of OSIS, in an announcement. “I stay up for continued progress for each our organizations and the flexibility to strengthen our mission in assuaging the burden that IT initiatives can add to safety-net organizations. We’ll proceed to make a distinction for many who want it essentially the most.”
