Mission Statement

Comunity Health Advocates (CHAs) and health professionals working with HIEx™ to improve the health of the community.

HealthLink Miami Valley will promote universal access and care coordination to the uninsured and marginally insured in the Greater Dayton Region to value-driven health care including the enhancement of a community-wide information network. Universal access will be accomplished as a self-sustaining process through local collaboration.

Vision Statement

The whole (entire) population of the Greater Dayton Region will have access to and will receive appropriate health care services through an efficient and quality system of health care.

News

News Release June 12, 2008 - Wright State University (Center for Healthy Communities) to help build national network for electronic medical records exchange. Click here to read.

Kate Cauley presented a poster at the National Conference on the uninsured in Washington DC December 11, 2007. The title of the poster was "Data Mining for Uninsured Service Utilization Patterns Using Health Information Exchange".

HIEx™ Update

HIEx™ provides a person centric health record and household centric demographic record that is used by health and human service professionals. Data are currently stored for approximately 54,000 individuals and 20,000 households. If your organization needs a web-based electronic health record or human service information system that integrates data from multiple sources, and includes a full audit trail to assist in HIPAA compliance, call Mary Crimmins at 937-775-1122. Click here for Wright State HIPAA regulations. Progress continues in building HIEx™ to the Continuity of Care Record Specification.

Regional Health Information Organization - RHIO

Health information technology (HIT) typically refers to electronic health records in a physician’s office or in a hospital system. Health information exchange (HIE) refers to the business of Regional Health Information Organization (RHIOs) that are seen as the primary building blocks for the National Health Information Network. As such, RHIOs will be responsible for maintaining a patient centric health record that captures information from multiple points of care into a central view or record. HealthLink Miami Valley has established the HealthLink RHIO as the West Central Ohio’s focus for health information exchange. The HealthLink RHIO is administered by the Wright State University Center for Healthy Communities

At the nexus of the HealthLink RHIO is HIEx™, a web-based system that was developed using federal (HRSA) funds to provide a central data repository for a shared community health record. The core data set for HIEx™ is built on the Continuity of Care Record (CCR), which is currently the only national standard for clinical health information exchange (ASTM E2369-05). The CCR provides accurate clinical, demographic and administrative data for a specific patient. HIEx™ currently houses demographics, contacts, referrals, notes, scanned documents, medications, immunizations, diagnoses, procedures, and eligibility data stored at both the individual and household levels.

The HealthLink Network is providing the administrative home for the HealthLink Miami Valley RHIO and seeks funds to expand the current health information exchange. Interested organizations should contact Mary Crimmins at 937-775-1122.

HealthLink HRSA Grants

Network Members

HealthLink Miami Valley Task Forces

HealthLink Information Exchange (HIEx)