Maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the United States are among the highest in the developed world—impacting roughly 50,000 women each year and taking the lives of 700 mothers annually. Three in…

Reshaping the nation’s HIEs as state-designated health data utilities (HDUs) offers distinct advantages for public health, according to HIE officials.

The next generation of HIEs must think beyond the transfer of information and explore how they can use real-time health data to improve population health…

In a commentary for Capital Weekly (California), Mimi Hall, vice president of public health innovation at Manifest MedEx and an advisor to the Consortium for…

As we work to advance interoperability and data sharing across the nation, we should remember that our ultimate goal is to help people live healthier…

Only a small portion of Medi-Cal’s primary care providers share quality health data. We need to close the digital divide that has left behind the…

The concept of a health data utility formalizes the wide scope of functions many health information exchanges already deliver. And work on social determinants of…

Maryland State Legislature has passed inaugural legislation, mandating the state-designated health information exchange (HIE), CRISP, to operate as the state-designated health data utility (HDU) beginning Oct….

When public health investigators in Maryland want more information about overdose fatalities and survivals, they tap into the state’s designated health information exchange, the Chesapeake…

An article published in Healthcare Innovation. CSRI Board Officer Jaime Bland, describing CyncHealth’s work as a health data utility, says, “We are really focusing on…