Health Information Exchange Provider Offers States Free Backbone for Information Sharing

August 26, 2009 By Emily Montandon, Associate Editor

Governors of all U.S. states and territories received an offer this week from NaviNet, a commercial health information exchange (HIE) provider, to develop a branded portal through which regional HIEs, hospitals, insurers and others in the health-care industry could exchange medical information.

Around 770,000 health-care providers across the U.S. and its territories already use the NaviNet network, according to the company.

The NaviNet system allows users to exchange financial, administrative or clinical information across its network, depending on their role in providing patient care. According to Kendra Obrist, chief marketing officer for NaviNet, states would incur no costs for signing up, but the company would charge providers and payers throughout the state for using the network.

"If you think about health information exchange and the ability to move information from point A to point B, [we] view our offer much like providing a road or a bridge free to a state so they could use it, and then we would make our money, in essence, from collecting the tolls," said Obrist. "From a state government perspective, it allows them to not have to make the one-time upfront investment in building that roadway."

Obrist said NaviNet is offering its services as a way to help states avoid spending planning and development grants building their own HIE infrastructures.

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