Community

Browsersoft is both a founder and supporter of the OpenHRE Community, a consortium of communities and organizations throughout America that are working together to achieve secure and sustainable health information exchange.  Established in 2004, the OpenHRE Community shares important findings and deliverables with  each other, and collectively contributes to the continuing design, development, and distribution of the OpenHRE™ Toolkit, developed by Browsersoft, Inc.

The OpenHRE Community is proof that collaboration, open values and collective innovation are not foreign concepts, but mandatory attributes to embrace for achieving cost effective and sustainable interoperability.  Membership is open and free to anyone interested in this shared vision.

Membership includes representation from a breadth of health stakeholders including Health Information Exchanges initiatives, RHIOs, Academic institutions, state and local agencies,  commercial vendors, payers, providers and individuals.  Initiatives now benefiting from the OpenHRE™  Toolkit and Browsersoft services include:

 

ByNet (Franklin, LA) –a non-profit, rural health network comprised of community health centers, local and regional hospitals, a social service agency, a tribal health clinic, a regional State of Louisiana Office of Public Health, and a coalition of over seventy St. Mary Parish organizations.  The ByNet centralized repository contains demographic and clinical records for approximately 25,000 patients.

EKCITA (Tehachapi, CA) –a rural community in California demonstrating secure and appropriate sharing of electronic health files and clinical data for public health, patient care, and research.  The EKCITA deployment provides community caregivers access to over 32,000 local patient health profiles.

HASA (San Antonio, TX) - a health care consortium serving the medically uninsured in Bexar County, TX.  HASA was formed to more effectively exchange information between health care providers using Internet technology to improve health care delivery and quality of care.  HASA participants include the five major safety net hospitals and a network of community FQHCs serving the uninsured of San Antonio.  The SecureShare centralized community repository contains demographic and clinical records for over 300,000 uninsured patients.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE – Topeka, KS) – The Kansas Diabetes Quality of Care Project involves over 68 funded organizations at 90 provider sites across the State of Kansas. Over the past two years, Browsersoft has electronically connected many of these sites to allow the collection and analysis of patient diabetes data by KDHE personnel.  Over 350 health professionals participate in this program with representation from over 50% of Kansas’ counties.