Organization Profile
Hawaii Health Information Corporation
Organization Overview
Hawaii Health Information Corporation (HHIC) is Hawaii’s leading health care information organization. Our mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate statewide health information in support of efforts to continuously improve the health of the people of Hawai’i and the quality and cost-efficiency of healthcare services.
HHIC is a private, not-for-profit corporation established in 1994 by the state’s major private health care organizations in conjunction with State government, business, health and other sectors of the economy.
HHIC plays a unique role as an agent for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health and health care. HHIC provides high quality data, data products, and research to the Hawaii health care community, supporting improved decision making in the allocation and financing of health care. HHIC’s unique strength is the ability to generate comparative information using the extensive records from our database products.
HHIC’s core mission drives its products, activities, and services.
HHIC’s Data Warehouse, Database Development and Management
HHIC develops and maintains healthcare databases used by hospitals and other healthcare organizations to analyze costs and outcomes of care. In addition, HHIC staff has developed these resources into a data warehouse that allows use of multiple databases to track patient flow from one service to another and to conduct analyses about the relationship of one service to another. Staff possess significant experience in data base architecture and design, data mart development and analysis as well as data security. Currently, these databases are:
Inpatient Hospital Data – HHIC has been collecting inpatient hospital data from acute care hospitals in Hawaii since 1995. The inpatient database currently includes approximately two million patient records.
Emergency Department Data – In 2000, emergency department (ED) data was added to HHIC’s data repository and currently contains three million patient records.
Financial Data – The Hawai’i Databank Program is part of a national effort to use a web-based data collection, query and reporting tool called Databank to produce timely and accurate reports based on income statement, balance sheet, and patient utilization data. HHIC began collecting financial data from Hawaii’s hospitals in 2003.
Ambulatory Surgery Data (in development) – Ambulatory surgeries include surgical episodes where the patient requires less than a 24-hour stay. HHIC has collected ambulatory surgery data from Hawaii’s hospitals since 2007
Integrated Clinical Laboratory-Inpatient data (in development—To improve comparative effectiveness research, HHIC, in collaboration with The Queen’s Medical Center, has implemented a three-year $1.3 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that combines laboratory data from Hawaii’s clinical laboratories and hospitals with HHIC’s already-existing inpatient database. This database will improve Hawaii’s ability to conduct cutting-edge health services research.
Physician Data (In development) – Based on growing number of user requests, HHIC began developing a physician database in 2008. Pending funding, this database will allow stakeholders to better understand physician supply and workforce needs.
Waitlist Data (in development)—Funded by Hawaii’s MedQuest health plans, HHIC is implementing a database containing data on persons in “waitlisted” beds, that is persons kept in hospitals because of an inability to place them in the community.
Data and Research
HHIC provides analyses of Hawaii’s healthcare system as well as about individual hospitals and their services. It also works with hospitals, government policy makers, employers, purchasers, HMOs, and insurers to analyze and produce reports on special topics such as community needs, health facilities, services; the health status of Hawaii’s people; and Hawaii’s health care workforce. HHIC’s own staff has broad depth and experience in health services research, health planning, policy development and analysis and public health. With its close relationship with the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaii, HHIC will be able to draw upon JABSOM’s specialized expertise for studies requiring in-depth subject matter expertise.
Notable Clients
Hawaii's Acute Care Hospitals