The Austin, Texas-based Connxus health information exchange is eyeing expansion — both geographically and in terms of services offered. The HIE recently joined the Patient-Centered Data Home (PCDH) effort, enabling seamless data transfer across the U.S. Originally formed by an alliance of local safety net providers in 1997, Connxus now has partnerships across eight Central Texas counties. The HIE’s CEO, Eliel Oliveira, M.S., M.B.A., recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the state of interoperability in Texas and nationwide.

Oliveira has a lengthy and impressive resume in the interoperability sphere. Prior to joining Connxus, he was a senior director at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (HPHCI) in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Earlier, he led the division of Health Informatics in the Department of Population Health at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and also served as the CIO at the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) in New Orleans, where he led the design and implementation of the Research Action for Health Network (REACHnet) as a Clinical Data Research Network node in the national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORnet).

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