The Rise in Health Data Utilities (HDUs)
Over the past year, there has been a shift in HIEs moving more towards being Health Data Utilities (HDU).
Much of this change has been driven by Citivas Networks for Health, which defines HDUs as being “statewide entities that combine, enhance, and exchange electronic health data across care and services settings for treatment, care coordination, quality improvement, and public and community health purposes.”
In late 2021, we published a RosettaHealth podcast interview with Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, who discussed the move towards a public health utility model of health data exchange.
“We anticipate a future where there’s some type of health data utility in every region, jurisdiction or state,” said Bari in the podcast interview. “This is where many different stakeholders are able to benefit from the baseline infrastructure.”
Recently, EHR Intelligence published an article that dove into this topic further. Specifically, it discussed how HDUs can help to ensure that health information exchange connectivity and data collection are sufficiently complete to meet the needs of public health.
Much of the success of HUDs comes down to supporting state public health infrastructure. Along these lines, we hosted a RosettaHealth podcast interview with Doug Fridsma, former President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and former Chief Science Officer at ONC; Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of MiHIN; and Buff Colchagoff, CEO of RosettaHealth, about this particular topic.
In addition, there are innovations that enhance the HIT infrastructure for true health data exchange.
Foe example, RosettaHealth's HealthBus is a SaaS-based solution 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.
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