C3HIE, a nonprofit, neighborhood well being info alternate in Texas, will function the know-how basis for the Texas Group of Rural & Neighborhood Hospitals (TORCH) clinically built-in community (CIN), which is able to present rural hospitals in Texas with knowledge infrastructure and instruments for increasing care high quality and entry.
TORCH CIN was launched in 2021 to create a high-performing statewide community of aligned suppliers to have interaction in scientific and monetary integration applications, particularly to take part in value-based care initiatives and allow progressive strategies for sharing contractual threat amongst individuals. It has 27 hospitals and 51 clinics and value-based contracts with United Healthcare, Amerigroup and Aetna.
By this effort, C3HIE shall be including greater than 20 new hospitals to its community and increasing the HIE’s attain into rural healthcare communities in Texas. This CIN infrastructure will allow rural suppliers throughout the state to determine greatest practices and improve care coordination and high quality, C3HIE mentioned.
Along with offering the info infrastructure, C3HIE will allow knowledge aggregation capabilities for the brand new TORCH CIN, which may also be a part of the Aligning Expertise, by Linking Interoperable Programs (ATLIS) Medicaid high quality fee program.
“TORCH CIN is proud to accomplice with C3HIE as we join rural hospitals and equip them with the info infrastructure and instruments they should present higher look after the communities we collectively serve,” mentioned John Henderson, president and CEO of TORCH, in a press release.
“CINs are the way forward for healthcare, and we’re joyful to accomplice with TORCH to strengthen rural hospitals and clinics to make sure that Texans have entry to sustainable healthcare of their communities,” mentioned Jim Hoag, COO of C3HIE, in a press release. “C3HIE is ready to combination essential knowledge from CIN hospitals and clinics, and incorporate affected person well being info from regional companions, making a extra complete and linked care expertise.”
Leveraging one connection, suppliers within the TORCH CIN will have the ability to have real-time entry to a longitudinal affected person file with the flexibility to view key components comparable to lab outcomes – minimizing the chance of duplicate testing – in addition to the flexibility to leverage knowledge from their present programs. The C3HIE platform may also supply full affected person knowledge transparency with a Grasp Affected person Index (MPI).
“C3HIE’s long-standing dedication to rural healthcare ensures that even the smallest communities in Texas can have entry to the identical excessive requirements of care and innovation as their city counterparts,” Hoag added. “Collectively, we’re guaranteeing that Texans in each neighborhood have entry to high-quality healthcare and stronger native healthcare programs.”
