Articles from Connie

Health Information Alliance, Inc. (HIA) — the operating entity charged with running Connecticut’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), Connie — today announced that Michelle Puhlick will become interim executive director and chief operating officer effective immediately, succeeding Jenn Searls, who is stepping down as part of an established succession plan. Puhlick has served as the organization’s chief operating officer since Connie’s inception in 2021.

Connie, Connecticut’s state-designated Health Information Exchange (HIE), today announced it has been selected as a recipient of the Behavioral Health Interoperability Pilot Grant. This grant will support statewide efforts to decrease the barriers to care coordination among providers for their patients in behavioral health treatment by implementing an electronic consent management solution for substance use disorder (SUD) encounter and clinical data.

Connie, Connecticut’s state-designated Health Information Exchange (HIE), today announced the implementation of Clinical Architecture’s PIQXL Gateway to help healthcare organizations across Connecticut assess and strengthen the quality of shared patient data. The implementation is backed by a grant from the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health) and will help Connie better support state-designated standards for collecting and using race, ethnicity and language (REL) data.

Connie, the state-designated health information exchange for Connecticut, closed out 2024 with significant momentum and growth among its product and service offerings to providers as well as its connectivity with healthcare organizations and practices across state.

Connie, the State of Connecticut’s nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), marked another year of successfully leveraging a nation-leading innovative medication safety tool. Utilized by healthcare providers across the state who collectively serve more than 4.5 million patients, the tool’s demonstrated impact has paved the way for expansion of the program.