LOUISIANA STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY POSITIONED AS EARLY ADOPTER TO JOIN TEFCA
Contact: Jeremy Lapeyrouse Director of HealthSYNC jeremy@lsms.org
Baton Rouge February 13, 2022 – Louisiana State Medical Society’s Health Information Exchange, HealthSYNC, through its partner Kansas Health Information Network, Inc., DBA KONZA announced today it is one of the first organizations to have its application approved to continue to the testing and onboarding phase to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT. Partnering with the TEFCA-Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project , one of the primary objectives of ONC is to develop a trusted exchange framework where QHINs enable national interoperability in a network-of- networks approach. The Louisiana State Medical Society (LSMS) is partnered with KONZA National Network to build, implement and operationalize HealthSYNC across the state. Through the partnership with KONZA, Louisiana State Medical Society has ensured their members have a simple and streamlined solution to access national and state exchange, comply with government quality program measures, achieve deeper insights and utilize analytic tools to better manage health populations. This work supports Louisiana State Medical Society’s vision of promoting excellence in the practice of medicine. LSMS Executive Vice President and CEO Jeff Williams stated, “this announcement confirms our physicians’ belief in HealthSYNC and KONZA and the benefits that they are bringing to healthcare in our state. Our mission of empowering patients and physicians is realized through Health Information Exchange.” KONZA enables the sharing of clinical information at the point of care, while supporting transformative value-based payment models, care management and data analytics. As a credible, trusted and strategic partner for physical and behavioral health providers, patients and payers across the country, KONZA will leverage its 12 years of health information exchange (HIE) expertise by working closely with the RCE and prospective QHINs to operationalize TEFCA. KONZA President and CEO Laura McCrary, Ed.D. stated, “We could not be prouder to have our QHIN application approved. Our team has worked hard to build a grass roots
network from the ground up. KONZA meets the needs of a wide variety of healthcare providers in the last mile. With a primary objective of improving patient care, we utilize our experience and technical expertise to deliver high quality data solutions and products that build national interoperability.” With KONZA achieving QHIN designation, Louisiana State Medical Society’s existing and future members will be able to connect into the TEFCA structure, helping navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance with greater ease while avoiding the need to participate in multiple exchanges. LEARN MORE ABOUT KONZA’S PURSUIT TO BECOME A QHIN: https://www.konza.org/QHIN ABOUT LOUISIANA STATES MEDICAL SOCIETY In today’s fast-paced health care environment, there’s nothing more important than having well trained, skilled and knowledgeable physicians and no one knows more about these attributes than the Louisiana State Medical Society (LSMS). Our mission is to be the trusted advocate for patients and physicians in the state of Louisiana. Today, we represent 6,000 physicians, residents and physicians-in-training throughout Louisiana. These individuals represent a diverse group of demographics and practice settings within the health care community across the state. ABOUT KONZA NATIONAL NETWORK KONZA National Network supports health information exchanges in partnership with state medical societies, which includes more than 15 million unique patients and over 10,000 providers in 10 states (KS, MO, SC, TX, MS, GA, CT, NJ, LA, CA). Available to any organization in any state in the nation, KONZA utilizes a secure electronic network provided by a collaboration of healthcare organizations. KONZA National Network supports national connectivity directly benefiting healthcare professionals and patients with KONZA’s delivery of unequaled, streamlined intelligence. KONZA’s goal is to improve healthcare quality, coordination and efficiency through the exchange of health information.
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