Today marks an important moment for Contexture and for the communities we serve across Arizona and Colorado. For years, our teams have worked steadily toward a shared vision: a single, unified health information exchange that gives care providers access to patient records from sources across both states, from different EHRs and care environments, enabling a more complete picture of a patient's health. As of today, participants across Arizona and Colorado are connected through one unified HIE platform designed for faster, more consistent access to information.
At the core of this effort is a simple idea: Health information should move as easily as the people who rely on it. Whether in Arizona with a single HIE or in Colorado with more than one, organizations have at times struggled to access complete records when they needed them. Differences in systems, standards, and consent processes contributed to those gaps. This created real challenges for coordination, continuity, and reporting. By unifying our technology foundation, we are improving connectivity across the region and bringing the best of our HIE solutions under one umbrella. Participants gain a single, more complete view of the patient in our provider portal, more consistent delivery options, and greater efficiencies that free up time and reduce costs.
This milestone is more than a technology upgrade. Three complex legacy systems were migrated into a single HIE platform, which now connects over 1,000 interfaces and more than 1,500 organizations, comprised of thousands of participating facilities collectively managing approximately 28 million patient identities. It represents thousands of hours of teamwork, planning, problem solving, and partnership, showing what is possible when people come together with a common purpose. It sets the stage for a new era of coordinated, informed, and connected care across our region.
What It Means for Our Region
At its heart, patients and communities benefit. Providers get clearer, faster insights, not just data. Care teams stay aligned even when patients move across counties or state lines. Public health programs strengthen their ability to monitor trends and respond effectively.
This transition is about making health information easier to access and easier to trust across two states that share patients, resources, and care networks. With this unified foundation in place, organizations across Arizona and Colorado can expect improvements in performance and reliability that support better informed care decisions. Participants will be able to receive clinical results directly within their own electronic health record systems, creating more efficient workflows. They will also see stronger privacy protections through role-based access controls, expanded access to important data types, and enhanced support for public health reporting and analytics.
To support participants during this transition, we've added new walkthroughs, training materials, and reference guides to our Resource Hub. If questions come up or you need assistance, our Customer Support page is always available to help.
A Foundation Built for the Future
With this transition, we are upgrading participants to a shared system that supports all users, delivering better performance, stronger functionality, and better connectivity across the region. Built with community input at every stage, it brings the best of our HIE services into a single platform designed to better serve participants and their patients.
As Melissa Kotrys, our CEO, shared, "For the first time, Contexture is operating as a truly integrated HIE across Arizona and Colorado, offering enhanced functionality and performance in support of improving patient health. This implementation reflects years of collaboration and trust from our participants. Their engagement made this milestone possible, and we are grateful for their ongoing commitment to the health of communities across our region."
That trust and collaboration are at the core of everything we are announcing today. Contexture supports thousands of healthcare organizations who rely on timely, accurate, and secure access to health information, that in turn serve millions of patients. Bringing a state onto a unified technology foundation strengthens that access in meaningful, measurable ways.
A Project of Extraordinary Scale
Bringing services together across two states required broad coordination among partners and systems, all with a larger purpose: giving participants more complete patient histories, enabling public health partners to access better data, and helping care teams coordinate with fewer delays.
Contexture teams worked to align systems and modernize how information moves through the HIE. They implemented over 1,000 interfaces, updated messaging services, and created dashboards that strengthen visibility into performance. With consolidated data sender connections across Arizona and Colorado, participants now see more than 52 million HL7 and Continuity of Care Document (CCD) messages flowing through the exchange each month, supporting a more reliable and consistent exchange experience. The teams successfully prepared and migrated more than 163 million CCDs of historical data to ensure providers caring for patients today have access to historical patient information.
The People Behind the Progress
While the numbers tell part of the story, the people tell the rest.
Our CIO, Deanna Towne, reflected on the journey by sharing, "Major system migrations carry immense complexity and risk. Unifying three separate Health Information Exchange platforms into one integrated solution has been a monumental undertaking. Contributing to this effort alongside the incredible Contexture team is something I will always take pride in and remain profoundly grateful for."
Deanna's sentiments are shared across the entire organization. From technical staff who monitored every interface, to support teams who guided organizations through change. This migration is an achievement rooted in patience, perseverance, and an unwavering focus on doing what is right for our participants.
Janeece Lawrence, VP of Project Management, shared, "This milestone represents more than the launch of a new technology platform. After three years of vision, grit, and collaboration, we turn the page on a new chapter. It marks the success of disciplined planning, intentional governance, and strong cross-team partnership. Over the past three years, we have transformed complexity into clarity, risk into readiness, and vision into execution. Today, we celebrate not just a project delivered, but the foundation for smarter, stronger, and more connected delivery in the years ahead."
Looking Ahead
Today's achievement is only the beginning. A unified technology platform allows us to innovate more quickly, and support participants needs more consistently across our region. It also opens the door to future improvements in data quality, analytics, and care coordination. This unified platform enables efficient scalability, allowing us to grow and evolve alongside our communities with flexibility to introduce new capabilities as healthcare needs continue to shift. When teams rally around a shared mission and stay committed even when the work is complex, transformation is possible.
To our participants and partners, we thank you. Your collaboration has created something remarkable, and it will impact millions of lives across Arizona and Colorado.
This is a day worth celebrating. We are excited to move forward together and to support you as you explore the tools, resources, and connections this transition makes possible.
