Established: HIE established in 1994.

Best Advice to New HIE: In order to succeed, you have to create a strong community of trust and move incrementally. In addition, you have to emphasize the patient and his/her health as the focus.

The mission of the Community of Scholars of the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care is to conduct research to improve health care by improving the capture, analysis, content and delivery of the information needed by patients, their health care providers and policy makers and to conduct intervention studies designed to measure the effect of the application of this research on the efficiency and quality of health care.

With support from the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Regenstreif Institute (http://www.regenstrief.org), informaticists have created a citywide electronic medical record system, the Indianapolis Network for Patient Care, beginning in 1994 to improve the care of patients throughout Indianapolis.  Current participants include all five major Indianapolis hospital systems which together operate a total of 15 geographically separated hospitals. Click here for more information.

Indiana leads the nation in developing and deploying health information exchange (HIE) capabilities.  The HI mission is to provide a secure, information infrastructure for physicians, hospitals, other healthcare providers (including public health), patients, employers and payers that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare in Indiana. Beginning with the Regenstrief rd12>Institute's development of the Indiana Network for Patient Care and Shared Pathology Informatics Network projects funded by the National Library of Medicine,  the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Cancer Institute and continuing with the development of the DOCS4DOCS© 2003 clinical messaging platform and leading to incorporation of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, Inc. (IHIE) in 2004 as a not-for-profit umbrella for all of the region's HIE projects, we have built an operational system that serves a broad constituency and provides a firm foundation for sustainable funding.

The HIE consists of a growing core of clinical data including laboratory results, radiology reports and images, pathology reports, dictated reports, ADT data, electrocardiograms, vital signs and more that is received from a wide variety of sources, converted to standard representations such as HL7 and LOINC(R) (http://www.loinc.org) and other standard codes and then used to deliver a variety of services such as electronic laboratory reporting for public health, creating a clinical data repository and clinical messaging for the hospitals and other providers. We deliver these services using state-of-the-art technologic solutions.

For more information contact:

Marc Overhage
317-490-4911
moverhage@regenstrief.org

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