Last week, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced a $20 million investment in Montana’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC).

“This critical investment in Montana’s health care IT ecosystem will support ongoing efforts to improve the overall experience for patients and clinicians across the state, while saving lives, creating efficiencies, and saving taxpayer dollars,” said Gov. Gianforte, in this press release. “The ability to have quick and secure access to medical records – regardless of location – is vital, especially in emergency situations when time is of the essence.”

BSCC is Montana’s state-designated HIE, a platform that allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s vital medical information electronically – improving the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care.

Currently over 75 medical provider organizations and more than half of Montana hospital systems are signed on as partners with Big Sky Care Connect. These organizations encompass more than 350 provider locations throughout the state.

As highlighted in this recent EHR Intelligence article, the investment will go towards:

• Establishing a clinical data repository to improve provider data access for better care coordination.

• Implementing a patient event notification to improve provider care intervention.

• Creating a quality measurement program to improve provider quality metric reporting.

• Facilitating the exchange of images to improve healthcare outcomes.

A key solution for helping to achieve these new objectives, the RosettaHealth HealthBus is a SaaS-based offering that enables full health information exchange capabilities for sending and receiving all standardized exchange formats. It also offers real-time network analytics capabilities, which include detailed connection status as well as metrics and logs about each facility, feed or protocol.

Congratulations to Big Sky Care Connect for receiving this significant funding, which will surely transform the quality of care delivered to the State of Montana.

RosettaHealth can assist with any health information challenges you might have, book a free consultation with one of our interoperability experts.