With the Kno2 Communication API, QHIN-to-QHIN exchange will
become available through a single connection to the Kno2
network
BOISE,
Idaho, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Kno2®,
the company leading the future of healthcare communication,
publicly announces the intention to apply to become a Qualified
Health Information Network (QHIN) under the Trusted Exchange
Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), demonstrating its continued
commitment to enable health information exchange for all.
From its inception, Kno2 has connected every meaningful network
and endpoint involved in the exchange of patient information and,
in turn, makes this broad connectivity available through a single
Communication API to partners and providers. This commitment and
hard work resulted in Kno2 becoming the most expansive and
comprehensive communication network available in healthcare today,
unifying and centralizing complete clinical exchange workflows into
a single solution.
"Healthcare interoperability continues to be a complex and
challenging landscape for technology vendors, providers and
non-covered entities seeking to securely exchange or access patient
information at scale," says Jon
Elwell, CEO of Kno2. "The addition of new networks,
protocols and standards only adds to the complexity. Kno2 brings a
level of simplicity and ease through our single Communication
API."
From the beginning, Kno2 has provided early, lasting and active
participation in the Common Agreement Workgroup, which helped to
shape the vision and proposed execution for TEFCA.
Elwell continues, "I'm proud of the team for its tireless
efforts working closely with various stakeholders to bring clarity
to the governance and standards that are now included in the
published QHIN application. Our work is helping make QHIN-based
exchange possible."
If selected as a designated QHIN, Kno2's unique value will be in
the broad access it will deliver to organizations of all sizes
interested in participating in TEFCA. Kno2's passion to democratize
health information exchange for all includes connecting and
representing the needs of historically overlooked healthcare
segments including post-acute, therapies, EMS, vision, dental,
behavioral health, specialty providers and others. This is
particularly important because these markets are becoming critical
to new delivery models aimed at driving costs out of care and
improving outcomes. Interoperable exchange throughout healthcare
has never been more important.
"Kno2 dedicates tremendous time and resource to participation
and leadership for national and regional industry initiatives
defining the path forward for interoperability," says Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at
Kno2. "Our partners and providers place tremendous trust in us to
ensure their voice and needs are recognized and implemented at
local, regional and national levels across industry initiatives and
within the Kno2 platform." Bell continues, "Becoming a QHIN is no
different. Staying true to our commitment, Kno2 will apply because
we want to make QHIN services seamlessly available to our partners,
letting them continue to focus to their core business."
As the most tenured and expansive network of networks, every new
Kno2 connectivity effort has been approached with thoughtful design
and innovation around the core tenants of send, receive and find.
With nearly a decade of innovation and expansion around push and
pull-based networks – including our work with Direct Secure
Messaging, Carequality and many of the nation's HIEs – Kno2 is well
positioned to becoming a QHIN. Kno2 is the technology of choice for
overlooked care settings and digital health applications for the
purposes of payment, operations and individual access. ONC's focus
to expanding interoperability beyond treatment is critical.
Bell adds, "Applying for QHIN designation is exciting for us as
we have the entire foundation established for optimized sending,
receiving and finding patient information already within the
platform. Thus, this effort goes well beyond doing the fundamental
work to become a QHIN. This effort will be about maximizing the
value of the workflows each participant receives from QHIN-to-QHIN
exchange. We will not lose our focus to innovation as we ensure
adoption and the best experience not only to our partners and
customers, but other QHINs we connect to, their customers and all
of healthcare."
Kno2 looks forward to participating in nationwide efforts to
ensure interoperability, and TEFCA represents the single best
opportunity for delivering on this long-promised outcome. To learn
more about Kno2's pursuit for QHIN designation, visit
https://kno2.com/qhin/.
About Kno2
The Kno2 network enables the secure, effortless and maximized
exchange of patient information across patients, providers, payers
and IT vendors. We are empowering healthcare to finally realize the
true potential of interoperability by unleashing connectivity
everywhere through a simple to use Communication API and robust
tools for any business. With industry disrupting economics and our
passion to include the underserved, Kno2 is democratizing
healthcare communications and defining the new connected future of
healthcare. With a single connection to Kno2, anyone can quickly
gain access to a powerful network of connected networks, EHRs,
HIEs, organizations, technologies and interoperability frameworks
that gives the freedom to easily communicate with all. To learn
more, visit http://www.kno2.com.
Media Contact
Jane Bryant, Spire
Communications, 1 571-235-4822, jbryant@spirecomm.com
SOURCE Spire Communications