About Us
Created as a not-for-profit to connect care across Indiana, IHIE emerged as a national innovator by bringing together five local health systems to build one of the nation’s largest HIEs.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) is the state’s trusted engine for better patient care, informed public health, and smarter health policy. Every day across Indiana, lives are improved because critical health information is available where it’s needed most—at the bedside, across care teams, and within public health systems. By securely connecting health data statewide, IHIE helps save time, reduce costs, and support better outcomes for patients and communities.
As a designated Health Data Utility (HDU), IHIE combines, enhances, and exchanges electronic health information across care and service settings to support treatment, care coordination, quality improvement, and population and public health initiatives. Our statewide infrastructure integrates data from individual EHRs, providers, employers, and the Indiana Department of Health, ensuring a more complete picture of patient care while equipping public health leaders with real-time insights to track outbreaks, identify trends, address disparities, and inform evidence-based policy.
IHIE is a trusted partner to hospitals, agencies, and policymakers, working side-by-side to design solutions tailored to their needs. From real-time clinical alerts for rural hospitals, to aggregated dashboards for public health agencies, to population-level insights for state leaders, IHIE delivers flexible, data-driven solutions that strengthen healthcare across Indiana.
Our History
IHIE’s origins trace back to pioneering health informatics research led by the Regenstrief Institute and the development of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the nation’s earliest and most advanced health information exchange infrastructures. Created as a research initiative, the INPC evolved into the country’s largest inter-organizational clinical data repository and became the data asset that IHIE manages today.
In 2004, BioCrossroads established IHIE as a not-for-profit organization to harness this work through a rare collaboration among five competing health systems—IU Health, Community Health Network, Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Ascension St. Vincent, and Franciscan Alliance. United by a shared belief that secure data sharing could improve care statewide, this collaboration laid the groundwork for a trusted exchange that has since grown to include more than 123 hospitals and thousands of providers across Indiana, along with public health agencies and key stakeholders.
Over time, IHIE expanded its technical infrastructure and connectivity, enabling the secure exchange of clinical data such as lab results and radiology reports at statewide scale, and even protects healthcare data from cyber attacks. IHIE is a national model for health information exchange and established Indiana as a leader in collaborative, large-scale health data sharing.
What We're Hearing
We have a casual, laid-back, fun culture, and work-life balance is valued.
We’re focused on sharing information between doctors and hospitals and insurance companies and anybody involved in the health care of people in Indiana to make it better, to make it more cost efficient, to make it safer. We save time, we save money, and we save lives.
[IHIE] allows us to look at what trends are happening in the state of Indiana that could impact any rural or large metropolitan area. And so, if you don’t know what’s happening from an epidemiologic standpoint, how can you prepare? How do you prevent and how do you protect our citizens?
Relevant, timely clinical data is the lifeblood of clinical excellence. Every day. The tools that IHIE provides helps doctors, nurses and other clinicians provide better care of patients.