The New Digital Frontier: How QHIN-Connected EHRs Level the Playing Field for Community Hospitals

HIT Consultant September 24, 2025
Jay Adams, Executive Vice President of Altera Sunrise

In the past, technology was often used as a wedge against local hospital independence. Big systems would offer subsidized EHRs, and in exchange, small hospitals would give up control—over workflows, over data, over their futures. “Community Connect” models promised integration but too often delivered dependency.

That doesn’t have to be the future.

Thanks to the emergence of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under TEFCA, the national interoperability infrastructure is finally real. And for community and safety-net hospitals, this moment is a chance to flip the script—to choose EHR partners that are wired into national exchange standards and still treat them like the primary customer, not a downstream user.

It’s a chance to stay connected without being absorbed.

QHINs Change the...

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