About Long Beach Network for Health (LBNH)

LBNH is a non-profit organization created in 2003 as a Health Information Exchange in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The LBNH mission is to promote enhanced health for the greater Long Beach community by enabling a secure, patient-centric, and information-rich health information exchange. The LBNH goals include: building public health capacity, improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, improving physician and patient access to health information, and enhancing disease management.


LBNH includes major healthcare providers, community representatives, and public health professionals. Participants are the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, COPE Health Solutions, HealthCare Partners Medical Group, Institute of Community Pharmacy, L.A. Care Health Plan, Long Beach Diabetes Collaborative, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (Harbor-UCLA Medical Center), Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County Medical Association (Long Beach Chapter), MemorialCare Medical Centers (Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital), Memorial HealthCare IPA, Molina Health Care, Public Health Foundation Enterprises, SCAN Health Plan, Talbert Medical Group and The Children's Clinic: Serving Children and Their Families.

The planned pilot project will initially link Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Community Hospital of Long Beach, Health Care Partners, and Talbert Medical Group to provide clinical information for use in emergent care settings. Once the pilot is built the network should expand.

About Lovelace Clinic Foundation/New Mexico Health Information Collaborative

The New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC) is the name of New Mexico's rapidly growing health information exchange (HIE) network, as well as the community collaborative that has supported its development with time and funding. The collaborative includes important New Mexico stakeholders representing the largest health care providers, payers, employers, state agencies and consumers. NMHIC was created in 2004, and continues to be fully staffed and operated by the Lovelace Clinic Foundation. LCF is a non-profit applied health research organization founded in 1990.

NMHIC Stakeholders Participating in NHIN Trial Implementations:
· Presbyterian Healthcare Services: the largest health system in the state of New Mexico with seven hospitals.

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