The new agreement brings greater EHR platform choice to
providers, while ensuring reliable access to equitable,
high-quality care for roughly 30% of nation's health center
patients.
PORTLAND, Ore. and CINCINNATI, July 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OCHIN and OSIS, two national nonprofit
organizations collectively supporting over 39,000 providers serving
over 9.3 million patients, have entered into a formal partnership
to help address a growing number of challenges that hinder today's
health care delivery system. The new partner agreement aligns OCHIN
and OSIS capabilities to better support health center
sustainability and fuel innovation for member organizations
nationwide.
"At the heart of the new OCHIN and OSIS partnership is a shared
belief that today's health care system requires innovative
approaches to connecting and transforming access to care," said
Abby Sears, president and CEO of
OCHIN. "By standing together and joining forces, OCHIN and OSIS can
make an even greater and more enduring impact for the providers,
patients, and communities we serve."
Technical staffing shortages, rising operational costs, and
increasingly complex patient care require comprehensive electronic
health record (EHR) solutions. By working together to develop
affordable and tailored EHR strategies for providers in
systemically underserved communities, the new OCHIN and OSIS
partnership builds the resilience of both networks and will help
transform care for roughly 30% of the estimated 31.5
million health center patients nationwide.
"OSIS and OCHIN have simultaneously been working to tackle the
same issues that impact our Community Health Center Community. This
new partnership allows us to remain independent but share resources
for more efficient problem solving across the country," said
Jeff Lowrance, CEO of OSIS. "I look
forward to continued growth for both our organizations and the
ability to strengthen our mission in alleviating the burden that IT
initiatives can add to safety-net organizations. We will continue
to make a difference for those who need it the most."
In addition to supporting members' daily operations, the OCHIN
and OSIS partnership will bring greater health center
representation to national health equity research and advocacy,
drive operational savings through collaborative innovation, and
help address workforce shortages by tapping into the available
talent and technical expertise present across both organizations to
fill critical roles.
Both established nearly 25 years ago, OSIS and OCHIN each bring
unique areas of expertise to the partnership, allowing greater
choice for CHCs who can continue to depend on tailored support for
their respective EHR platforms as they grow and innovate for the
future.
OCHIN will continue to support rural hospitals following its
2023 expansion into acute care.
For more information about OCHIN and OSIS, visit their
websites.
About OCHIN
OCHIN is a nonprofit leader in equitable
health care innovation and a trusted partner to a growing national
provider network. With the largest collection of community health
data in the country and more than two decades of practice-based
research and solutions expertise, OCHIN provides the clinical
insights and tailored technologies needed to expand patient access,
grow and connect care teams, and improve the health of rural and
medically underserved communities.
About OSIS
OSIS is a non-profit technology services
organization representing the nation's largest and most successful
network of NextGen Health Centers. To strengthen the NextGen
experience, OSIS shares commonalities that drive innovation and
efficiency and have developed a series of solutions and tools to
manage patient populations, reduce documentation time while
capturing quality measures, and report on the factors that drive
your organization. OSIS' mission is to reduce the technology burden
for Health Centers, allowing the main focus to remain on patient
care.
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