About DHIN
The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) was enacted by the Delaware General Assembly in 1997 as a public-private partnership for the benefit of all citizens of Delaware to advance the creation of a statewide health information network and to address Delaware's needs for timely, reliable and relevant health care information. DHIN has adopted regulations to govern its operations and has policies and procedures in place to support privacy and security of patient information.
What is DHIN?
· DHIN became the first operational statewide health information exchange in the country in May 2007.
· Provides secure delivery of clinical results (lab and pathology), reports (radiology and transcribed reports) and face sheets (demographic and billing information)
· Includes clinical history searchable by authorized DHIN users on a need to know basis; including medication history
· Web-based portal for those without an electronic health record (EHR), including auto-print for paper charting
· Direct interface into the EHR with patient record matching for those providers with EHRs
· Creates efficiencies for doctors and those who send them clinical information
· Eliminates need for traditional delivery methods
· Improves patient care, enhances patient privacy, and improves practice efficiency.
DHIN By The Numbers (updated 8/12/2011)
· 75% of Delaware acute care hospitals participate in DHIN (BayHealth Medical Center, Beebe Medical Center, Christiana Care Health System, St. Francis Hospital)
· DHIN’s participating hospitals represent 75% of all staffed hospital beds, 79% of all emergency department visits and 76% of all outpatient visits in Delaware
· Five hospital emergency departments and laboratories send data through DHIN to the Division of Public Health for public health monitoring
· Four federally qualified health centers (Delmarva Rural Ministries, La Red Health Center, Henrietta Johnson Medical Center and Westside Family Health) are among the practices exclusively receiving results via DHIN
· More than one million unique patients are represented in the master patient index
· 80% of providers currently practicing in DE are enrolled in DHIN
· More than 5,000 providers and staff at 465 Delaware practices are live on DHIN; 168 of these practices receive clinical results/reports exclusively through the DHIN
· DHIN delivers more than 7 million clinical results and reports each year
· Two national reference laboratories (LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics) and a local pathology provider (Doctors Pathology Services) participate in DHIN
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