Company Profile
Arizona Health-e Connection
Company Overview
Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC) is a statewide non-profit charged with leading Arizona’s establishment of health information infrastructure (HII), including adoption of electronic health records and health information exchange. Now an independent non-profit incorporated in 2007, AzHeC originally grew out of an August 2005 gubernatorial executive order to develop a Roadmap for HII in Arizona. AzHeC has been widely recognized for its
collaborative work in moving Arizona’s HII efforts forward through strategic communication
and coordination among multiple stakeholders. AzHeC is the recipient of the coveted Council of State Governments’ Innovations Award and has been featured in a Harvard Business School case study, in addition to serving as the grant recipient for the Arizona Regional Extension Center.
The Arizona Regional Extension Center (REC) is a collaboration of AzHeC, Arizona State University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, Health Services Advisory Group and the Purchasing and Assistance Collaborative for Electronic Health Records. The REC is one of 60 regional extension centers nationwide federally designated to serve Arizona as an unbiased, trusted resource with national perspective and local expertise to move the adoption of electronic health records forward. The Arizona REC has received a $10.8 million grant to assist Arizona’s primary care doctors in adopting electronic health records in a way that will improve the quality of care for their patients. The program will accomplish this by providing education and hands on technical assistance to 1,958 healthcare providers by April 2012.