Renal Healthcare Association's Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The information source for renal dialysis organizations and electronic health record (EHR) vendors contracting with the Renal Healthcare HIE to submit EQRS quality data for end-stage renal disease patients.

Start Onboarding

Follow the four steps below to onboard with the Renal Healthcare HIE.

Get Started - Contracting

The Renal Healthcare Association is offering use of the Renal Healthcare HIE to any Renal Healthcare Association member or non-member organization for electronic data submission of EQRS quality data. To use the HIE, an organization must execute the HIE Participation Agreement.

Get Set - Facility Registration

Renal dialysis organizations with an approved contract from the Renal Healthcare HIE for EQRS quality data reporting must also register their individual facilities to report data for the patients at those facilities. The online registration is also where organizations can manage and update information for their registered facilities.

Get Connected - Connect to the HIE

Renal dialysis organizations that have completed contracting and facility registration can work with their EHR vendor to get connected to the HIE for their EQRS quality data submissions. The Renal Healthcare HIE supports secure API connectivity that integrates with the EHR vendor system. Contact your EHR vendor for next steps to get connected to the Renal Healthcare HIE.

Get Reports - CMS Data Quality Reports

Submitting patient and clinical data to EQRS through the Renal Healthcare HIE is cost-effective and efficient. CMS creates a wide variety of reports (distributed by the Renal Healthcare HIE) for renal dialysis organizations that provide quality and data submission information.

Maintenance Schedule

Production maintenance is scheduled the third Thursday of each month for up to a 3-hour outage starting at 10 PM ET/9 PM CT/8 PM MT/7 PM PT.
UAT maintenance is scheduled the first Thursday of each month for a 2-hour outage from 11 PM-1 AM ET/12 PM-2 AM CT/1 AM-3 AM MT/2 AM-4 AM PT.
If needed, additional UAT maintenance may be performed on a Thursday later in the month from 2 AM-4 AM ET/3 AM-5 AM CT/4 AM-6 AM MT/5 AM-7 AM PT.

RHA HIE Production Monthly Maintenance Schedule (2025)
January 16	February 20	March 20
April 17	May 15	June 19
July 17	August 21	September 18
October 16	November 20	December 18

RHA HIE UAT Monthly Maintenance Schedule (2025)
January 2	February 6	March 6
April 3	May 1	June 5
July 3	August 7	September 4
October 2	November 6	December 4

Vendors

The Renal Healthcare HIE facilitates a process for electronic health record (EHR) vendors to become certified to electronically submit data to the EQRS repository through the Renal Healthcare HIE. This certification demonstrates the vendor has the technical capability to support this process and may promote this capability as a feature of their software.

Renal Healthcare HIE Support

The Renal Healthcare HIE website hosts self-help guides with tips for triaging data submission and issues, and an online form for support requests. The Support Request Form is set up with conditional logic to route the request to the team equipped to provide support for the issue.

HIE Support