CRISP’s Horrocks to Direct New York eHealth Collaborative

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) has brought in a person of the rock stars of the well being information and facts exchange environment, choosing David Horrocks, president and CEO of CRISP, Maryland’s HIE, as its new CEO.

The nonprofit NYeC oversees the Statewide Wellness Details Network for New York (SHIN-NY). Pronounced “shiny,” it facilitates the safe electronic trade of individual wellbeing info statewide. In partnership with the New York State Office of Wellness, NYeC created and manages the know-how system that connects New York’s Skilled Entities (QEs) and enables the sharing of data statewide. The SHIN-NY connects 100 % of the hospitals in New York Condition, in excess of 100,000 health care gurus, and represents millions of people dwelling in or acquiring care in New York.

Horrocks has been the president and CEO of CRISP because its development in 2009. While at CRISP, he introduced CRISP Shared Providers, an iHIE affiliation by which 5 state-designated HIEs share a solitary technological innovation operation to acquire economies of scale and share ideal techniques. In 2012, CRISP produced an ADT-centered come across notification procedure that grew to become a model for the country’s HIEs.

Horrocks succeeds Valerie Gray, who departed at the close of 2021 right after a lot more than five several years at the helm.

Horrocks has built the circumstance for considering of HIEs as useful wellbeing information utility mainly because they are in a position to mix and enhance info. “Think about a COVID scenario file and the automobiles that we have experienced for several years for community wellbeing to acquire data. If you incorporate a COVID scenario file with persistent ailment flags from Medicaid, Medicare and business promises, you boost that file in a way that would be very tricky for public health and fitness to do by putting new reporting mandates in the subject,” he mentioned during a panel discussion last 12 months.  “I assume this role of combining information to greatly enhance knowledge is distinctive. And because we are dependable, and for the reason that we are controlled to have excess affected person privacy protections, I consider it truly is uniquely a purpose that we are in a position to participate in.”

NYeC Board Chair John D. Bennett, M.D., also serves as president and CEO of Funds District Physicians’ Wellness System. In a assertion, he said, “David has the expertise, smarts, and management abilities that make him the best human being to information NYeC and the Statewide Health and fitness Details Community for New York (SHIN-NY) ahead as we get the job done to increase health treatment results and decrease health care prices for New Yorkers.”

Prior to becoming a member of CRISP, Horrocks was senior vice president at Erickson Retirement Communities, serving in several startup ventures and also serving as chief information officer. Through Horrocks’ time as CIO, Erickson was among the pretty to start with senior residing corporations to deploy digital professional medical information to amenities, which unfold throughout 8 states. He previously spent 5 decades as a technologist and section manager for AbiliTech, a nonprofit that supplied technology products and services to individuals with disabilities. 

“It is an honor to be a part of the team at NYeC and all all those who add to the operate of the SHIN-NY.  New York has designed a sturdy foundation from which to innovate and advance healthcare interoperability, in assistance of New York State’s healthcare stakeholders, which include people and public health and fitness companies, that are served by the SHIN-NY,” Horrocks explained in a assertion.