The New Mexico Health Information Collaborative's statewide HIE went live on March 31, already holding two years' worth of data.
The HIE contains the records of approximately 1.2 million people and receives data from 52 percent of all hospital beds in the state, storing 1.6 terrabytes of medical record data. The network plans to connect to a nationwide HIE later in the summer to allow physicians to access records for care provided outside New Mexico, according to a news release.
The HIE is powered by Orion Health, a population health and healthcare integration software company based in Santa Monica, Calif. The New Mexico Medical Society named the NMHIC the official state HIE in 2013 and designated that it must be public and system-neutral, according to the news release.
Two medical groups, 18 hospitals and a statewide laboratory contribute records to the system. Several other organizations have signed up and will soon begin sharing records through the clinical portal, according to the news release.
"We adopted NMHIC as early as we could at every stage of its development, testing and now production, because we know its value," said Robert White, MD, medical director of informatics and quality at Albuquerque-based ABQ Health Partners, the first participating organization to access the portal. "Every day we witness how incomplete our patient care information can be, as patients move across our medical community."