CCHI launches health information exchange

The Council of Health Insurance (CCHI) and the National Health Information Center, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, recently launched the nphies platform to facilitate the exchange of health information for patients. As an interest of the CCHI to ensure the importance for the entities to follow the integration and release plan entities of the first wave will have to comply, from the beginning of September 2021.

The integration and release plan of nphies includes five stages, leading up to the official launch, starting with the preparation stage, which was to communicate with providers, payers and third-party administrators (TPA) followed by the awareness stage which involves holding of several awareness meetings which aim to  introduce nphies platform and its benefits in the case of integration. Then there was working on onboarding them to link with nphies, which is in the onboarding stage and as for the facility readiness stage, several training courses were held to explain and clarify the medical codes and to ensure the technical readiness. The last stage included the activation stage, which contains a set of procedures and tests to ensure the success of the connection with the platform which are expected to be completed by providers, payers, TPAs and system suppliers to obtain a certificate of integration with the nphies platform.