Illinois pros form HIE, select Medicity for platform

Three hospital systems and three physician practices in central Illinois are moving toward making their vision of digitally exchanging patient information a reality by forming the Lincoln Land Health Information Exchange (LLHIE).

The five voting members of the LLHIE are Blessing Health System of Quincy, and Hospital Sisters Health System, Memorial Health System, SIU HealthCare and Springfield Clinic, all based in Springfield. Prairie Cardiovascular of Springfield serves as a non-voting member of the HIE, the Springfield, Ill.-based LLHIE stated.

The founding organizations voted to establish the LLHIE as a limited liability company on Aug. 4.

The LLHIE selected Medicity, based in Salt Lake City, to provide the technology that will allow the exchange of medical data. The HIE will begin exchanging clinical information later this year, the exchange added.

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