Health Info Network honored for nursing home work

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 Delaware Heath Information Network (DHIN) announced its recognition as a DirectTrust Interoperability Hero.

The nation’s first operational statewide health information exchange, DHIN shares clinical information. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information.

In the category of “Broadening Interoperability through the Spectrum of Care,” DHIN was recognized for developing a shared-cost agreement with two Accountable Care Organizations, along with Delaware’s skilled nursing facility providers and an electronic medical record provider to enroll 33 facilities with DHIN.

Skilled nursing facilities in Delaware historically did not use electronic medical records and couldn’t send the admission, discharge and transfer summary messages that drive alerts through DHIN. While DHIN processes over 130 million of these messages each year from healthcare systems from across the mid-Atlantic region, a small fraction are from post-acute care facilities.


This collaboration allows for up to 85% of post-acute care organizations in the state to deliver their information through DHIN, correspondingly enabling the delivery of alerts to treating clinicians, improving the coordination of care and making this data history available by query in DHIN’s Community Health Record, a release stated.

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“We’re delighted to recognize DHIN as an Interoperability Hero,” said Scott Stuewe, CEO of DirectTrust. “There’s power in knowing the stories driving advancements in interoperability. We’re thrilled to bring attention to the use cases and successes of the efforts of those meeting the criteria of Interoperability Hero.”


DirectTrust is a non-profit, vendor-neutral alliance initially created by and for participants in the healthcare and technology communities, including Health Information Service Providers. Further information is available www.directtrust.org.

Launched in 2007, DIHN, it serves all of Delaware’s acute care hospitals and nearly 100% of the state’s medical providers. More than 81 million clinical results and messages are processed through DHIN each year. Further information is available at  www.DHIN.org.

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