Data Surge

Inside Healthcare
March 1, 2011

As health information exchanges leave the development stage and begin offering services, healthcare organizations are discovering the potential power of free-flowing data and robust analytics.

A perfect example is the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX), run by Irene Koch, founding executive director. New York’s Health Efficiency and Affordability Law led to early funding and support for health information exchange, and BHIX now finds itself on the leading edge of showing how technology can help a variety of healthcare organizations.

"Right now, we are assessing with our corporate members, vendor partners, payers, and additional customers where the demand is in the market for our base services and value-added services,” said Koch. “We’re looking at common threads and what projects we can support for providers by building on our infrastructure."

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