KONZA Health Supports and Endorses the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem

TOPEKA, Kan., July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- KONZA Health supports and endorses the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem as a bold new vision to support a shared framework for data and access that empowers people, improves care, and accelerates progress.

KONZA Health has been working toward the goals of the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem for many years and is aligned and has implemented the visionary ideas outlined in the pledge. For example:

• KONZA Health has made a full copy of a patient's medical record available to any patient since 2014 with proper identity verification. We believe the patient's medical record belongs to the patient.
  
  
• KONZA Health has provided one longitudinal patient medical record to providers since 2018. We believe providers should have one longitudinal record for the patient that is near real time, de-duplicated and normalized.
  
  
• KONZA Health was one of the original five Qualified Health Information Networks® (QHINs™) designated in 2023 by HHS and ASTP (previously ONC) to help ensure providers had a complete list of the patient's medical information, not just pieces and parts of the record.
  
  
• KONZA Health provides notifications to providers through our RapidAlerts product. This alerts providers if their patients have been admitted or discharged from the hospital, if a mother has delivered a new baby and when a patient has an infectious disease. New alerts are forthcoming.
  
  
• KONZA Health has built and certified FHIR infrastructure for sharing health information among and across networks, providers, health plans and patients.
  
  
• KONZA Health knows that quality measures are not correct unless they consider all the care the patient has received. Thus, KONZA Health has developed new technology that supports payers and value-based care programs in closing care gaps and calculating quality measures.
  
  
• KONZA Health has focused on data quality and data completeness by certifying all its members with NCQA Data Aggregation Validation. The highest level of certification for providers, demonstrating complete and correct data.
  
  
• KONZA Health maintains the highest level of data security and has achieved HITRUST®, DirectTrust® Privacy & Security Accreditation and MARS-e accreditation.
  
  
• KONZA Health is EHR agnostic. It does not matter what EHR system a provider uses. We can integrate with all of them delivering structured and unstructured data.

KONZA Health pledges to be an early adopter and meet the framework criteria by December 31, 2025 to become a CMS-Aligned Network and demonstrate the work we have done over the last 15 years.

We agree with CMS-- Let's show what's possible when we work together – and finally bring Healthcare into the modern era we already live in everywhere else.

SOURCE KONZA Health