Alert: HIE

About the OneHealthPort Health Information Exchange

Washington State's Health Information Exchange provides healthcare organizations a secure, low-cost means to share standardized messages with trading partners on a system-to-system basis. The HIE supports multiple formats, allowing a wide range of trading partners to easily exchange both business and clinical information. The OneHealthPort HIE is designated by the State of Washington as the statewide health information exchange. OneHealthPort also operates the Renal Healthcare Association's HIE, which connects renal dialysis treatment facilities with CMS for purpose

Transactions

Organizations contracted with the OneHealthPort HIE can begin the process to get connected and exchange information with other participating organizations, public health registries and clinical data repositories in the HIE community. The HIE supports standard transactions such as C-CDA documents, Electronic Laboratory Reporting and Syndromic Surveillance messages to the Department of Health, and system-to-system, query capability to the Prescription Monitoring Program database.

Registration

Organizations contracted with the OneHealthPort HIE must register facilities before exchanging information. Facilities include hospitals, clinics or practices in the organization. Identifiers are assigned to the facilities for use in the messages sent through the HIE.

Contracting

The OneHealthPort Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a service that supports the exchange of clinical or business information in standardized message formats. To participate, interested organizations must sign a participation agreement and pay an annual subscription fee.