Arizona Health-E Connection

“Board of directors are engaged in businesses related to and compatible with the healthcare industry. As such they are frequently in the position to procure goods and services from each other in the daily operation of their businesses.”

“The organization's audit firm reviews the form 990 with the finance committee in detail and then on a summary basis with the board at a scheduled meeting before the return is filed.”

“Annually each director, key employee, council member and workgroup member fills out and submits a new conflict of interest disclosure form. The form is reviewed by executive management/leardership to denote any stated conflicts and then is kept on file for the duration of the year and if any changes in circumstances occur, an updated form must be submitted. Board reviews/approves as part of consent agenda.”

“Ceo compensation is recommended by the executive committee using comparative data and approved by the board after deliberations. This process was last completed during 2018. New or reclassified positions are reviewed by the supervisor and executive management to evaluate the duties. The compensation is determined after comparing to similar positions using a variety of corporate, non profit and governmental information. This process was last completed during 2018.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Health current is the statewide health information exchange (hie) that helps partners transform care by bringing together communities and information across arizona. As arizona's hie, health current fully integrates physical and behavioral health information, connecting a complete continuum of the arizona healthcare community from first responders, hospitals, labs, health plans, correctional facilities, community behavioral health to and physical health providers to post-acute care and hospice providers. With data on more than 9 million individuals from over 100 different healthcare providers throughout arizona, including patient data from hospitals that represent 98% of all statewide hospital discharges, health current is able to robustly support the health care community with services that lead to better care and better health care outcomes. The hie services offered by health current include real-time alerts and notifications regarding hospital admissions and discharges, emergency visits and other critical health care information; delivery of full medical histories to health care participants when and where they are needed; and a variety of other services such as support for public health reporting, data analytics and population health tracking. Health current has worked for more than ten years to become arizona's primary resource for health information technology and exchange. Over the past 10+ years the organization has: - assisted more than 3,000 arizona providers with the adoption and use of electronic health records (ehrs), helping to drive ehr adoption statewide to more than 90 percent. - built and operated an hie technology platform that captures, shares and integrates actionable data to enable better clinical decisions and care coordination. - integrated physical and behavioral health information and providers in one arizona hie that today includes over 600 participating organizations.”

“Ship program ended in april 2018.”

“As a 501(c)(3) organization, health current is comprised of variety of stakeholders of the healthcare industry (hospitals, insurance firms, providers, associations). Directors are required to be in key decision-making positions of their companies (ceo, cio, etc.) as such, health current is frequently in the position to procure goods and services from directors whose businesses are directly related to the purpose and mission of health current. These transactions are conducted at arms-length and properly documented.”

“Health services advisory group, inc.: program service expenses 27,738. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 27,738. Mercy care plan: program service expenses 2,361,703. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 2,361,703. Arizona alliance of community health centers: program service expenses 25,353. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 25,353. Other professional consultants: program service expenses 558,561. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 558,561.”

“There has been no change in either the oversight process or the selection process during the tax year.”