About Us
KC CareLink - A Health Information Exchange
About KC CareLink | Funders and Collaborations
Funders
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City
- Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
- REACH Foundation
- Saint Luke’s Hospital Foundation
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Community Access Program Grants - Victor E. Speas Foundation
Collaborations
Since its inception in 2001, KC CareLink has worked in partnership the safety net community to clarify their needs for cross-organizational information and communication and to provide them with the technical infrastructure to meet these needs. We consider all of the participating organizations our partners.
KC CareLink works in collaboration with a number of organizations that play a vital role in coordinating health care in our community. We are pleased to be associated with the important community organizations described below.
Northland CARE/MetroCARE
Northland Health Care Access seeks to ensure timely access to primary health care and prevention services for the underinsured residents of the Northland for whom such services are unavailable or difficult to obtain.
Northland CARE/MetroCARE is a community partnership to improve access
to primary care for low-income, uninsured residents of Clay and Platte
Counties. Northland CARE/MetroCARE is a volunteer network of private
physicians in the Northland who provide both primary care and specialty
care services for uninsured residents. Specialty care services are
provided in partnership with the Center for Practical Bioethics and
the Metropolitan Medical Society of Greater Kansas City.
Wyandotte County
The Community Health Council of Wyandotte County (CHCWC) is a community collaborative established in 2002 that includes representatives from local government, safety net clinics, hospitals, business, and community and service organizations.
Regional Health Care Initiative
Building partnerships that offer quality health care to the underserved.
MARC’s Regional Health Care Initiative addresses how to provide effective
health care for citizens who do not have health insurance.
In addition, KC CareLink collaborates with other health information exchanges across the country, exchanging information and ideas, providing data, and participating in surveys.
CareEntrust is an independent, not-for-profit organization representing two dozen Kansas City-based employers and over 100,000 employees and their dependents. CareEntrust’s mission is to make available a longitudinal view of patient information for consumers and health care entities to improve health care quality, efficiency and safety.