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ABOUT US

HCIN is a nonprofit corporation led by hospital/health care executives, system engineers, and CTOs who are experienced in health care operations and technology.

Six leaders from HCIN member hospitals and the executive director comprise the Board of Directors and guide the organization’s strategic path. HCIN contracts all technical development and management of the network to Paras & Associates, which designed the first video/voice over IP call center for HCIN and which supplies these services to health providers in other states and large health systems.

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A rapidly growing network

With the generous support of the California HealthCare Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, HCIN has designed, built, and deployed one of the most advanced video health care interpretation solutions available. Following are the historical milestones of the organization:

	Milestones	New membership
2005	Planning Committee Formed to develop HCIN Initial implementation with Contra Costa, San Joaquin, and San Mateo Evaluation of patient/provider feedback.	Planning Committee Contra Costa San Joaquin San Mateo
2006	Decision that SNI would not house HCIN. HCIN temporarily moved to Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation	Contra Costa San Joaquin San Mateo
2007	Conversion of Fujitsu laptops for VVIP use.	Members added in 2007/8: Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr. Kern Med. Ctr. LAC+USC Med. Ctr. Olive View Med. Ctr. Rancho Los Amigos Riverside County RMC
2008	Nonprofit governance structure developed Business, network development, and equipment planning initiated Determination that HCIN could be used for telepsychiatry services	Members added in 2007/8: Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr. Kern Med. Ctr. LAC+USC Med. Ctr. Olive View Med. Ctr. Rancho Los Amigos Riverside County RMC
2009	Membership increased from 9 to 11	Community RMC - Fresno Kaweah Delta Med. Ctr.
2010	Membership increased from 11 to 15	Children's Hospital Central California MLK Comprehensive Health Center Natividad Med. Ctr. Northern Inyo Hosp. (lite)
2011	Membership increased from 15 to 19	Sierra View District Hosp. UCLA Med. Ctr. Ventura County Med. Ctr. Clovis Community Medical Center
2012	HCIN surpasses threshold: One Million Interpreter Requests Routed! HCIN Learn, our online training site for interpreter continuing education, goes live.
2013	HCIN takes on new responsibility as national quality assurance leader for shared interpreter networks in the US Membership increased from 19 to 20	Shasta Community Health Center
2014	HCIN develops a Scheduled Appointment Center, to provide its members with an additional layer of service, and access to dozens of additional languages. Our partnership with Natividad Medical Foundation links our members to interpreters of some two dozen indigenous languages and dialects from Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatan and Guatemala.

ABOUT US

A rapidly growing network

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