The Behavioral Health and Health Information Exchange Project is a collaboration of Colorado-based behavioral health organizations and associations. In the project, patients can consent to permitting their behavioral health data to be exchanged on the HIE.
The project will use the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Consent2Share tool, an open source tool for consent management that integrates with EHRs and HIEs that honors legally required protections of behavioral health patient information, according to the report.
The project will start at one behavioral health center where patients will be offered the option to consent to the data exchange. “[Continuity of care documents] will not just include hospital data, but it will now also include behavioral health information to bridge care between providers,” Toria Thompson, CORHIO’s behavioral health information exchange coordinator, told Health Data Management. “We will have things like the medications they are on and their diagnosis as well as certain information on the last visits they’ve had.”
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