Researchers at City University of New York (CUNY) Release New Data on Medical Informatics (Evolution of clinical Health Information Exchanges to population health resources: a case study of the Indiana network for patient care): Health Information Technology – Medical Informatics

2025 MAR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in medical informatics. According to news reporting originating from City University of New York (CUNY) by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Motivated by the Triple Aim, US health care policy is expanding its focus from individual patient care to include population health management. Health Information Exchanges are positioned to play an important role in that expansion.”

Funders for this research include U.S. National Library of Medicine; Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality; National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from City University of New York (CUNY): “The objective is to describe the evolution of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC) and discuss examples of its innovations that support both population health and clinical applications. A descriptive analytical approach was used to gather information on the INPC. This included a literature review of recent systematic and scoping reviews, collection of research that used INPC data as a resource, and data abstracted by Regenstrief Data Services to understand the breadth of uses for the INPC as a data resource. Although INPC data are primarily gathered from and used in healthcare settings, their use for population health management and research has increased. By December 2023, the INPC contained nearly 25 million patients, a significant growth from 3.5 million in 2004. This growth was a result of the use of INPC data for population health surveillance, clinical applications for data, disease registries, Patient-Centered Data Homes, non-clinical population health advancements, and accountable care organization connections with Health Information Exchanges.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “By structuring services on the fundamental building blocks, expanding the focus to population health, and ensuring value in the services provided to the stakeholders, Health Information Exchanges are uniquely positioned to support both population health and clinical applications.”

For more information on this research see: Evolution of clinical Health Information Exchanges to population health resources: a case study of the Indiana network for patient care. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2025,25(1):1-12. (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making - http://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com). The publisher for BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is BMC.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-025-02933-9.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Karmen S. Williams, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York. Additional authors for this research include Saurabh Rahurkar, Shaun J. Grannis, Titus K. Schleyer, Brian E. Dixon.

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