MiHIN is Michigan’s statewide network of connected hospitals and physicians, allowing for the secure sharing of healthcare information between organizations.  In 2012, partnered with SEMHIE, we joined the MiHIN group of approved Quality Organizations (QOs). As a QO, we provided interconnectivity and messaging services for a number of Physician Organizations (POs), providing ADT Notifications, Statewide Lab Notifications and Medication Reconciliation Services. These services continue to run for select POs, now thirteen years later, and have totaled hundreds of millions of HL7 messages and CCD documents.

As openAirWare, we also worked directly with MiHIN as external interoperability and subject matter expert consultants. Some of the projects completed with MiHIN were a CCD Trimmer service, allowing for the removal of unauthorized portions of a CCD document; a CCD to Blue Cross Gaps-in-Care conversion service (a pre-cursor to our Alchemy service); and Diretto, their secure healthcare messaging service.

This press release from MiHIN describes some of the potential of Alchemy.