MSMS Connect
www.msms.org

The Michigan State Medical Society and Compuware subsidiary Covisint will electronically connect doctors across Michigan via MSMS Connect. The partnership is believed to be the nation’s first portal sponsored by a state medical society that connects multiple physicians and physician organizations.

As a free benefit to MSMS’ 15,000 physician members, this partnership enables the means for physicians to easily adopt technology in a cost-effective, minimally-disruptive way in their practices. The MSMS Connect network is designed to improve the quality, security and efficiency of health care by improving access to technology among physicians. A key benefit is that physicians need to sign-in only once to have secure access to applications providing clinical and administrative information, including labs, reporting, e‑prescribing, billing systems, patient registries and other data.

MiHIN Regions
www.mihin.org

Michigan has nine regions in the process of creating a local regional health information exchange to share health information locally within the region.  The goal is to share health information electronically statewide and eventually connect with other states via the NHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network).  Scroll over your county and connect to the HIE project in your area. 





Michigan's FCC Rural Health Initiative Pilot Program
http://fcc.mphi.org

In 2006, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would provide funding to enhance public and nonprofit health care providers’ access to advanced telecommunications and information services. In 2007, the Michigan Public Health Institute and Michigan Departments of Community Health and Information Technology, along with various other institutions and organizations, submitted Michigan’s proposal to the FCC, which was approved for funding.

Michigan’s FCC Rural Health Care Pilot project will bring high-speed network and Internet access to public hospitals, primary care clinics and other providers that serve critical populations in rural and tribal areas. The project will pay for 85% of the cost for the infrastructure necessary to link over 500 rural health care providers in Michigan to the high-speed health care network. The project will improve the quality of care in rural areas by linking them to the rest of the health care system.

Michigan Health Information Technology Commission
http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2946_44257---,00.html

The Michigan Health Information Technology (HIT) Commission was created by PA 137-06. The HIT Commission is housed within the Michigan Department of Community Health. The Commission's mission is to facilitate and promote the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of an interoperable health care information infrastructure in Michigan.

The 13-member HIT Commission was appointed in August 2006 and met for the first time in October 2006. The Commission meets monthly in 2009.

My One Health Information Exchange - my1HIE
http://www.my1hie.com/

Designed by physicians for physicians, my1HIE enables physicians to share vital patient information and collaborate on patient care with other healthcare providers. Developed with Covisint in 2007, my1HIE^sm is comprised of physician organizations with multiple hospital affiliations. By facilitating electronic connectivity, my1HIE members have access to the most accurate, real-time patient information available; resulting in better decision making, a higher quality of patient care, and reduced healthcare costs.

my1HIE utilizes myWorkspace^sm as the vehicle to connect providers to the information highway. As the first physician web portal offered in Michigan, myWorkspace^sm connects users to multiple clinical applications including; electronic prescribing, patient registry tools, e-labs, document managers, health plans and more. All of these applications are interconnected and can be accessed with a single unique user id and password from any location with an Internet connection.


United Physicians
www.updoctors.com

Bingham Farms-based United Physicians, through the my1HIE health information exchange, assists member physicians safely send and receive patient information that might otherwise have not been available, enhancing patient care and increasing efficiency.

United Physicians is a physician organization of more than 2,000 independent doctors practicing in southeast Michigan. Member physicians have medical staff privileges at hospitals throughout the region. United Physicians facilitates physician participation in health care plans and provides services that promote quality and efficiency in the practice and business of healthcare.

Michigan Thumb Health Information System
http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081104/mi-compuware-covisint.htm

Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based Compuware Corp. will electronically connect hospitals in Michigan’s “thumb” region, now called Michigan Thumb Health Information System (THIS). Covisint will enable the secure sharing of patient information electronically, demonstrating how critical-care access hospitals -- and the hospitals to which they transfer patients -- use technology to deliver better care.

Participating THIS hospitals will initially include Deckerville Community Hospital, Harbor Beach Community Hospital and Mercy Hospital-Port Huron, but the scope of this initiative is intended to more than double -- growing to several other critical access and tertiary hospitals in the region.

Additionally, THIS has been “scalably” designed, meaning that the network will be expanded to later include access to and from other regional healthcare systems.

Ann Arbor Area Health Information Exchange
http://www.a3hie.org/

The Ann Arbor Area Health Information Exchange (A3HIE), serving the greater Ann Arbor area, is comprised of 220 physicians and 50 nurse practitioners caring for over 800,000 active patients. Patient information is securely shared through a single community health portal accessed from the Web. A3HIE provides a seamless flow of pertinent referral information to improve the quality of care offered to patients, increasing patient safety by providing pertinent medication records and allergy histories. In addition to positive impacts on provider efficiency and costs, this data increases provider satisfaction by providing them with the supportive practice tools to deliver better care.

Michiana Health Information Network
http://www.mhin.net/

MHIN is a community health information exchange dedicated to providing secure, single source access to patient clinical information. We connect healthcare providers with the clinical data repository, results delivery, clinical messaging, interfaces and a fully integrated electronic health record. Our applications provide an efficient way for clinicians and institutions to appropriately exchange information to ensure high-quality, coordinated care.

Jackson Community Medical Record
http://www.jcmr.org/

Jackson Community Medical Record (JCMR) is a joint venture between Foote Hospital and the Jackson Physicians Alliance. It was formed to improve the quality of patient care through information technology and to lower the total cost of ownership for an electronic health record solution.