J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., who led the development of the HDU Capability Model, will become CEO of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability in January
In 2023, the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI) created a Maturity Model for health data utilities. Now CSRI has built on that framework by creating a Capability Model that identifies more than 160 capabilities for a clearer understanding of what an HDU can do.
HDUs are defined as nonprofit organizations with information exchange at their core and multi-stakeholder governance. Through their mission and function, they seek to meet the comprehensive health data delivery and analytics needs of a state’s public and private sectors.
Earlier this year, the nonprofit New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), which leads health information exchange efforts across the state of New York, joined CSRI. The founding CSRI members are Contexture, CRISP, CyncHealth, Indiana Health Information Exchange, and Manifest MedEx.
In a September 2024 interview with Healthcare Innovation, Indiana Health Information Exchange President and CEO John Kansky explained CSRI’s beginnings. “CSRI was formed because there were a number of large, capable organizations that, at that time, weren’t yet calling themselves health data utilities,” he said. “If you’re a health information exchange, and you start doing more things for more segments, and you just keep growing, one day you wake up and you say, ‘Hey, I am not just an HIE anymore, am I?’ There was a recognition that those organizations, working together, with their capabilities and their scale and their people, could do things they couldn’t do by themselves.”
