Patients Traveling for GameDay or Spring Break? Connie Makes Sure Health Data Doesn’t Get Left Behind

By Connie

This spring, Connecticut celebrated the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) women’s basketball team bringing home the national championship for the 12th time. Whether you’re a national champion traveling for hoops or taking a daycation to Mystic, how can you be sure your health data travels with you?

How Connie Supports Your Health Journey

If you or a loved one needs to see a doctor who is not your primary caregiver, it’s important your medical records get communicated to the providers you seek out when you’re not close to home.

Connie, Connecticut’s designated health information exchange (HIE), facilitates the seamless exchange of medical data while ensuring privacy and security. Connie partners with providers and systems across Connecticut to keep your health record up to date, including medical histories, recent diagnoses or hospital discharge notes, and can be accessed by the providers who need them. Connie is connected to healthcare institutions around the state, including hospitals, outpatient care clinics, skilled nursing facilities and more.

Picture a day trip to the coast and your child gets stung by a jellyfish. The urgent care clinic you visit doesn’t know you and your family personally like your primary care provider. Thanks to Connie, they can still see your allergies, prior diagnoses and recent prescriptions within seconds, allowing them to make the safest, most informed decisions possible.

Traveling Outside Connecticut

Wherever you are in the United States, if you experience a health emergency, Connie is committed to helping your health information get to where it’s needed most. Connie is a strong proponent of national interoperability efforts, which aim to make seamless data exchange across state lines the norm. While not every provider in every state is connected yet, Connie is working to ensure Connecticut stays ahead of the curve.

No More Guesswork

The more connected your care team is, the safer and more efficient your care becomes, whether you’re at home or miles away. For athletes, families, commuters, and all other Connecticut residents, Connie removes the guesswork from care coordination. Instead of waiting for faxes or other slow-moving methods of transferring data throughout the state, your care team has access to what they need to make informed decisions at their fingertips, wherever they’re located.