As a consortium of payers, providers and vendors, NEHEN brings best practices to the healthcare industry for
both clinical and administrative transaction processing through both workflow and technical solutions.
As a member-driven organization, NEHEN emphasizes collaboration, a decentralized model, and a standards-based
electronic healthcare data exchange that allows direct interoperability with your partner organizations.
NEHEN membership is open to payers and providers. Also, vendors, clearinghouses, agents, service providers, and
others are invited to join as Contract Affiliates.
For all NEHEN participants, membership brings a host of benefits:
- A voice in the tactical and strategic direction of health information technology and exchange in the New
England area
- An opportunity to coordinate your own health technology activities with the largest participants in the
New England healthcare industry
- A forum to communicate directly with the healthcare leaders shaping policy and implementation with your
largest payer and provider exchange partners
- Access to the same technology used and refined for the past 12 years in the delivery of, and payment for,
care rendered to millions of patients
Other benefits specific to payers and providers are described in these subsections, and at the links shown
at the left: Provider Benefits, and Payer Benefits.