Regenstrief announces licensing agreement with Indiana HIE

Calling it an “unprecedented licensing agreement," the medical research organization Regenstrief Institute announced on April 19 that it is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC) and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE).

“This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of an academic medical informatics research setting to a commercial enterprise in the history of Indiana’s health information technology sector and the national evolution of health information exchange,” according to the announcement, which said it would enable out-of-state expansion for the IHIE subsidiary.

Since 2004, IHIE has been largely responsible for getting 94 Indiana hospitals and 25,000 physicians in 17 states to use the INPC and DOCS4DOCS software while creating a sustainable business model, according to the announcement. “[O]n an average day, [the INPC handles] more than half a million secure transactions of clinically important data--including medical histories, laboratory test results, medication records, treatment reports--in a standardized, electronic format."