Program and Services

BHIX's unique offerings supports clinical priorities through an efficient and meaningful exchange of health information. Central to BHIX's programs and services is its technical architecture, which incorporates and promotes national, state, and industry standards to enable interoperability. BHIX participants are able to connect their systems more quickly and easily to BHIX and take advantage of new BHIX business services as they become available, irrespective of their underlying systems.

BHIX Programs and Services provide a wide-range of benefits to patients and health care organizations. By providing a more complete view of a patient's overall health and current treatment regimes, BHIX provides the following value to its participants:

• Improved quality of care, including the reduction in medical errors
  and duplicate testing
• Improved patient and clinician satisfaction
• Reduced timely administrative burden
• Reduced health care costs

BHIX solutions, consisting of a suite of business and technical services, support interoperability through which patient-centered care management is achieved:

   Health Information Exchange
   Enabling system interoperability for health information exchange

   Analytic Services
   Ensuring health information is increasingly actionable and meaningful

   Messaging Services
   Facilitating proactive messaging of vital patient information

   Patient Self-Management
   Engaging patients in their own care

   State and Federal Initiatives
   Providing the foundation for the state and national health    information networks