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.

TPA began as a user of the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Use Cases for ADT Notification, Lab Notification and Medication Reconciliation via the SouthEast Michigan Health Information Exchange (SEMHIE).

This relationship continued as we then provided additional custom services. Soon after, we found that their existing Population Registry would not accept CCD/CDA as a source input. We described how Alchemy was able to accept this and any other format that they required, and store it all in Arcana. Arcana became their new Reporting source, being considered an Electronic Health Record, a requirement by their partners, as well as a Registry for monitoring Physician Metrics and Outcomes.