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AzHeC is a vendor-neutral statewide health-IT convener. Journalists and editors are welcome to reach the council for background, context, and informed comment on health interoperability in Arizona and nationally.
Arizona
Boilerplate — for use in coverage
AzHeC — The Arizona Health Interoperability Council is a neutral, non-profit, statewide convener focused on health information technology and interoperability. The council carries the legacy of Arizona Health-e Connection and its statewide health information exchange, "The Network," into the era of connected care. It brings hospitals, clinics, labs, pharmacies, payers, state agencies, and standards bodies to a single neutral table to make the safe, standards-based exchange of clinical data more comprehensible and more achievable across Arizona.
AzHeC takes no vendor money for endorsements and recommends no commercial products. Its guidance starts from published standards — HL7, FHIR, GS1/UDI, NCPDP, and the federal Promoting Interoperability framework — and is intended to be educational and broadly useful to the public.
What we can speak to
The council offers informed, non-partisan context on the topics where it holds genuine expertise. We do not comment on the commercial merits of specific products or companies.
01Health information exchange
How a statewide HIE moves records between providers, the difference between query-based and directed exchange, and why a neutral exchange improves continuity of care.
The Network
02Interoperability standards
Plain-language background on HL7 v2, FHIR, C-CDA, Unique Device Identification (UDI), and GS1 standards in healthcare.
Standards program
03Privacy, consent & policy
Context on HIPAA, consent models, 42 CFR Part 2, and the history of the EHR Incentive Programs and Promoting Interoperability.
Privacy & HIPAA
04Connected devices & e-prescribing
How connected medical devices feed data into records, and the fundamentals of electronic prescribing and pharmaceutical supply-chain integration.
Our programsWorking with the council as a journalist
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We sit at a neutral table. Our job is to make connected care comprehensible — to explain how data should move and why — not to sell anyone a system.— The Arizona Health Interoperability Council
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