GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Jan. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Velatura Public Benefit Corporation (Velatura) today announced the formation of Velatura HIE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that will provide inclusion opportunities and health information exchanges (HIEs) in the whole country. Missouri-based Midwest Health Connection (MHC), one of the largest HIEs in the United States, joined as an inaugural member.
On December 31, 2020, MHC entered into a partnership agreement to become a subsidiary of Velatura HIE Corporation and the first HIE to take advantage of the first-class services offered by Velatura. The new unified HIE service organization is one of the largest of its kind in the country, connecting more than 1,300 healthcare organizations.
Backed by more than 10 years of experience and deep insight into all aspects of clinical information interoperability through the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN), Velatura is a national leader in HIE consulting and professional services. Velatura's three business units—Velatura HIE Corporation, Velatura Services and USQHIN—complement each other's offerings and services to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services across the country. Velatura also builds on the research and development skills provided by the Interoperability Institute, which was established in 2019 to facilitate the collaborative and agile development of real-world interoperability solutions and enable the next-generation health IT workforce.
“Velatura has a proven track record of success, and its services and processes align directly with MHC's mission to improve the quality of medical decision-making and care coordination in the healthcare ecosystem,” said Angie Bass, President and CEO of Velatura. MHC. “MHC network members have always been leaders in the HIE landscape, and this relationship is just one more indicator of their commitment to advancing health data interoperability initiatives. We are more determined than ever to provide trusted and secure solutions for sharing health information between healthcare providers and healthcare organizations—and we are excited to partner with an industry leader like Velatura to do so.”
As a result of the tie-up, MHC will transfer its operations to Velatura HIE Corporation enabling it to expand its service offerings to MHC network members by providing innovative market-driven solutions and meeting the needs of healthcare stakeholders across the country. With this transition, MHC's network of members will lead the charge to transform healthcare delivery throughout the Midwest.
“We couldn't be more excited to partner with Midwest Health Connection as we work together to advance high-quality patient care, cost savings, and greater and better health data interoperability through Midwest,” said Tim Pletcher, DHA , CEO of MiHIN. “As the HIE landscape changes with national trends, initiatives, and priorities such as the recovery and response efforts of COVID-19 and standardization and uniformity in electronic health data exchange and interoperability, we believe we are stronger together than ever before. apart to help complete the nation's charge to make interoperability valuable, meaningful and successful.”
With their collective strength in the HIE market and the ability to leverage best-in-class shared services, the companies aim to create a more effective model for promoting interoperability across the country.
“This is a big step in progress toward healthcare data interoperability across the country,” said Pat Rinvelt, Chairman of the Board of Velatura. Bringing these two powerful leaders together in the HIE community as a combined force will allow us to build on and grow the ground-breaking work that these two entities have done individually.”
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About Velatura
Velatura Public Benefit Corporation creatively connects and aligns people, organizations, technology, ideas and information in both the public and private sectors to improve healthcare, reduce costs and increase the satisfaction of health information stakeholders across the value chain. Founded in 2018, Velatura extends MiHIN's modular and scalable interoperability products and services outside of Michigan and provides exclusive solutions to organizations that need the ability to seamlessly interoperate and share electronic information. For more information, visit www.velatura.org.
About Midwest Health Connection
MHC is a health information exchange network that provides users with access to comprehensive electronic patient health records for more than 28+ million health records from across the Midwest. MHC's services are designed to support healthcare providers, payers, government agencies and healthcare stakeholders with complete and accurate real-time patient health records to enable the healthcare ecosystem to transform the delivery system healthcare by coordinating care, reducing preventable errors and avoiding overlap of treatment. Regardless of where a patient goes for care, MHC supports access to aggregated patient information to identify gaps in patient care and provide more clinical data to the healthcare community for improved clinical decision making, analysis and care coordination. For more information, visit www.MHC-HIE.org.
