Opt-Out

Unity is Northwest Indiana’s premier Heath Information Exchange (HIE) developed by Community Healthcare System. An HIE is designed to share health information between hospitals, physicians and other care givers. The primary goal of the HIE is to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care through eliminating the need for duplicate tests.

The information in Unity is very secure and only caregivers that are providing care to the patient will have access to the health information. Unity conforms to all HIPAA and HITECH policies and utilizes a state of the art privacy monitoring software to insure the privacy and confidentiality of data is maintained.

Why should you participate in Unity?

• To provide your physician with access to all your data in the hospital, physician practices and other medical providers.
• Lab Corp and Quest will be contributing data to Unity and your physician will be able to have immediate access to these lab results
• Community Healthcare System will share your confidential health information with your physician in their office through Unity
• Unity through the Indiana Health Information Exchange will have access to information from all other medical facilities in Indiana
• Unity will utilize advanced analytics to identify potential health risks related for each patient ultimately providing for early intervention for illness

By filling out the following form, you are requesting that your physicians do not share your medical information with each other. Unity will consider your request and take the appropriate action.