VisionShare to enable connectivity to the NHIN and HIEs from its secure exchange platform

VisionShare, one of the nation’s largest and most secure health information exchanges for administrative transactions, today announced plans to expand support for the exchange of clinical transactions on its platform and making connectivity to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and state and community-based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) available to its customers.

The VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform currently resides in over half the hospitals in the nation. With these new exchange capabilities and access points, VisionShare customers will be able to quickly capitalize on national healthcare reform initiatives to improve quality of care through more efficient information-sharing. And when the requirements for Federal HIT-related stimulus payments have been firmly established, VisionShare customers will be well positioned to demonstrate meaningful use involving the exchange of administrative and clinical transactions.

“Our goal has always been to secure and simplify health information exchange for our customers and others,” notes VisionShare CEO, John Feikema. “As the Nationwide Health Information Network rolls out, state and federal agencies will establish NHIN end points. Our customers will be able to use their VisionShare connection to securely exchange information across the NHIN with these organizations.” Through a similar model, Health Information Exchanges can use the VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform to build or quickly expand their network of healthcare providers. Feikema adds, “With thousands of healthcare providers on our network today, we hope to help accelerate provider adoption of both the NHIN and to local HIEs.”