The Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE), a self-funded collaborative of Riverside and San Bernardino County hospitals, medical centers, physician practices, health plans, public health organizations and other health care providers, is now live at http://iehie.org/.

The go-live represents a major milestone in the development of IEHIE, which will enable clinicians to access and share patient health records and improve care coordination for more than 4.1 million people living in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. IEHIE, one of the country’s largest health information exchanges, was founded in 2010 and is fully and privately funded through 52 participating health care organizations in the region.

The exchange is powered by Orion Health technology and was put into production in just over 80 days from the project’s initiation.

The 52 organizations currently involved in IEHIE include 21 hospitals, 25 medical groups, the two local medical associations, HASC, both County Public Health Departments and Clinics, and Inland Empire Health Plan, a not-for-profit public health plan serving more than 530,000 low-income members. Eighteen organizations, supporting roughly 3,000 hospital beds, 900 physicians and more than 1.1 million patients in the region, have enrolled in IEHIE to date.