What is DHIN?

• DHIN became the first operational statewide health information exchange in the country in May 2007. 

·         Provides secure delivery of clinical results (lab and pathology), reports (radiology) and face sheets (demographic and billing information)

·         Includes patient record search – clinical history available in DHIN on a need to know basis; including medication history

·         Web-based portal for those without an EMR, including auto-print for paper charting

·         Direct interface into the EMR with patient record matching for those providers with EMRs

·         Creates efficiencies for doctors and those who send them clinical information

·         Eliminates need for traditional delivery methods

DHIN By The Numbers

·         More than 811,000 unique patients are represented in the master patient index

·         60% of providers currently practicing in DE are enrolled in DHIN

·         DHIN processes more than 15 million transactions each month

·         More than 85% of lab result and hospital data is sent to DHIN

·         Four hospital systems with six hospitals (BayHealth Medical Center, Beebe Medical Center, Christiana Care Health System – plus St. Francis in 2010)

·         Two national reference laboratories (LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics) and a local pathology provider (Doctors Pathology Services)

·         Four federally qualified health centers (Delmarva Rural Ministries, La Red Health Center, Henrietta Johnson Medical Center and Westside Family Health)

·         Five hospital Emergency Departments sending data to the Division of Public Health for public health monitoring of outbreaks, such as Swine Flu

·         Connectivity to 6 Electronic Medical Records (EMR) vendors; 5 more in negotiations

·         One standard format for all data from all sources