Who we are

“Partnering with communities to create the knowledge and information solutions
to promote access, high quality and affordable healthcare for all”

One of the nation’s largest and most successful health information networks, OCHIN is nationally recognized for its innovative use of Health IT to improve the integration and delivery of health care services across a wide variety of practices—with an emphasis on safety net clinics and small practices as well as critical access and rural hospitals. OCHIN is focused on helping your practice use Health IT tools to achieve the core components of care quality improvement that are essential to realizing Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim goals: (1) improving patient experience, (2) enhancing population health, and (3) controlling costs.

For more than a decade, OCHIN has focused on installing and optimizing practice management (PM) and electronic health record (EHR) products while training clinicians and staff to utilize these tools effectively. Through its robust quality improvement (QI) and practice-based research network (PBRN) divisions, OCHIN is engaging providers and executives nationwide in the study, design, testing, and implementation of optimal workflows and clinical protocols that are required to realize care improvement and efficiency goals across a range of practices.

OCHIN recently leveraged its expertise to secure a federal grant to create and run Oregon’s Health Information Technology Extension Center (O-HITEC). O-HITEC’s goals are to help Oregon providers and practices select, adopt, and achieve the federal Meaningful Use requirements as required to secure up to $64,000 in federal incentive payments per eligible provider. Through O-HITEC, OCHIN is also helping providers and practices access volume-based savings on purchases of relevant products and services designed to help them reduce the costs of providing care.

OCHIN’s Health Center Controlled Network division is a fast-growing national network of community health centers (e.g., Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), FQHC look-alikes, rural and school-based health centers) leveraging a shared health record to assist in providing primary care, maternal and child health care, behavioral/mental health care, dental services, services for minority and seasonal farm workers, school-based health centers, etc to medically underserved populations. OCHIN’s network supports more than 1,500 primary care providers and upwards of 3,000 other clinical and administrative users who collectively care for an estimated 2.5 million patients annually.

OCHIN provides its clients varying levels of support support across a range of PM and EHR products. OCHIN’s single, centrally hosted instance of its Epic PM/EHR suite is highly customized to meet specific needs of our members including customized workflows and reporting; health information exchange capabilities with any capable PM/EHR system; bi-directional ELINCS interfaces to prominent national laboratories; bi-directional interface to state immunization registries; direct connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN); and, data aggregation and public health reporting applications for community-based health centers and small private practices. OCHIN is also a reseller of AllScripts and eClinicalWorks and provides comprehensive support for its centrally hosted instance of eClinicalWorks.

Finally, OCHIN’s consulting division provides a full range of services designed to ensure that practices have ongoing access to all the necessary tools to: maximize EHR implementation success; effectively train providers on certified EHR systems; support providers using certified EHRs to achieve Meaningful Use; and, assist practices that have already achieved Meaningful Use to leverage their EHRs to optimize their delivery of health care.