What is LIPIX?

LIPIX is an independent not-for-profit corporation established to develop a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO), aka a Health Information Exchange (HIE), on Long Island

Our Mission

To create an achievable, sustainable and replicable solution for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations, which supports New York State and Federal strategic HIT plans to improve access to patient data at the point of care, improve health care quality, and reduce inappropriate health care resource utilization.

Secondary Goals

* Foster collaboration amongst disparate health care entities.

* Promote interoperability through the use of nationally defined standards.

* Create project monitoring and evaluation tools to measure clinical benefits and reductions in inappropriate utilization and cost associated with HIEs.

* Demonstrate improvements in public health through the implementation of innovative functionality to support regional public health initiatives.

* Create a revenue model that provides financial sustainability to HIE projects.

 

Latest News ...

October 10, 2007

NEW YORK  eHEALTH Collaborative Receives Federal Contract to Advance Interoperable Health Information Exchange and Improve Health: LIPIX Stakeholder in Federal Contract
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) has been awarded a one year $2.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementation project.
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