In 2023, the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI) created a Maturity Mannequin for well being knowledge utilities. Now CSRI has constructed on that framework by making a Functionality Mannequin that identifies greater than 160 capabilities for a clearer understanding of what an HDU can do.
HDUs are outlined as nonprofit organizations with info trade at their core and multi-stakeholder governance. Via their mission and performance, they search to satisfy the great well being knowledge supply and analytics wants of a state’s private and non-private sectors.
Earlier this 12 months the nonprofit New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), which leads well being info trade efforts throughout the state of New York, joined CSRI. The founding CSRI members are Contexture, CRISP, CyncHealth, Indiana Well being Data Trade, and Manifest MedEx.
In a September 2024 interview with Healthcare Innovation, Indiana Well being Data Trade President and CEO John Kansky defined CSRI’s beginnings. “CSRI was fashioned as a result of there have been a variety of massive, succesful organizations that, at the moment, weren’t but calling themselves well being knowledge utilities,” he stated. “If you happen to’re a well being info trade, and also you begin doing extra issues for extra segments, and also you simply continue to grow, at some point you get up and also you say, ‘Hey, I’m not simply an HIE anymore, am I?’ There was a recognition that these organizations, working collectively, with their capabilities and their scale and their folks, might do issues they could not do by themselves.”
Kansky added that the origin story was across the Workplace of the Nationwide Coordinator suggesting that it could be nice if HIEs might do multi-state COVID dashboards throughout the pandemic response. “In three weeks, we put collectively a six-state dashboard that became a 22-state dashboard over time. And that was kind of the inspiration for what has develop into CSRI. Its imaginative and prescient for the USA is that each state has a succesful well being knowledge utility.”
Along with unveiling the Functionality Mannequin, CSRI introduced that J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., who led the event of the HDU Functionality Mannequin for CSRI, will develop into CSRI’s CEO in January.
Overhage has served as chief well being info officer for organizations comparable to Elevance Well being, Siemens Well being Options, and Cerner in addition to practiced for 20 years as a doctor in a significant educational medical middle.
“HDU stakeholders, together with sufferers, are all asking the identical query: Can I depend on this group to ship the info and providers I would like?” stated Overhage, in an announcement. “This mannequin offers a constant, evidence-based approach to reply that query. It doesn’t simply say whether or not a company calls itself a well being knowledge utility — it makes clear what it might truly do, at scale, for every stakeholder.”
The mannequin was developed with enter from stakeholders, HDUs, HIEs, and Civitas Networks for Well being, a nationwide collaborative comprised of member organizations working to make use of well being info trade, knowledge use, and cross-sector approaches to enhance well being.
Customers of the mannequin might embody policymakers who’re contemplating designation and/or additional growth of HDUs to assist well being knowledge connectivity on the state and nationwide ranges and HIE execs, who can use the HDU mannequin as a roadmap and commonplace to speak the worth and alignment of their knowledge providers with stakeholder wants.
Within the mannequin, capabilities are divided up by maturity degree. Examples of foundational capabilities embody medical lab and imaging connectivity. Superior capabilities embody issues like offering a bulk FHIR API and Knowledge Aggregator Validation. Aspirational capabilities embody digital id and belief providers and a genomic knowledge trade repository.
CSRI is inviting public feedback on the HDU Functionality Mannequin till December 12, 2025. To submit enter on the HDU Functionality Mannequin, ship an electronic mail to: (electronic mail protected).
