Healthcare Innovation November 14, 2019
Following Michigan announcement, Indiana HIEs to merge
Only a few days after health IT interoperability organizations in Michigan announced a merger, Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) and Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN), two Indiana HIEs, announced they plan to consolidate on Jan. 1, 2020.
Indiana’s third HIE, HealthLINC based in Bloomington, is also part of this statewide consolidation. HealthLINC began transitioning its customers to IHIE in mid-2019. The consolidation of the respective customer bases of Indiana’s three health information exchanges results in one HIE serving nearly all the state.
Indianapolis-based IHIE pointed to the changing national landscape of health IT. There has been a growing trend of consolidating HIEs to produce stronger value in overlapping markets...