Upcoming Deadline for Statewide Common Participation Agreement For Statewide Health Information Network for New York

The Situation Report | August 18, 2025

As a reminder, all NYS DOH Regulated Entities (e.g. Article 28, Article 36, Article 40) required to participate in the SHIN-NY must sign the SCPA by September 30, 2025. The contact form is available here.

According to the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), the SCPA is a new, common legal framework for all health care entities that participate in the SHIN-NY and establishes a data sharing agreement to make the state’s health information exchange more efficient, more robust, and more valuable to New York’s healthcare community.

The new SCPA is intended to modernize the health information exchange system, so that providers and public health agencies can get the authorized or permitted data they need, how and when they need it, to better care for patients. The approved SCPA will replace the numerous, different legal agreements which have historically governed participation in the SHIN-NY through the participating organization’s regional Qualified Entity (QE) while preserving the QEs’ role with their customers.

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) approved the Statewide Common Participation Agreement (SCPA), the first step to implement regulatory reforms to New York’s statewide public health information system – the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) – in April.

The SHIN-NY currently connects all hospitals in New York State, is used by more than 100,000 healthcare and community-based professionals, and supports the care of millions of people who live in or receive care in New York. Each month the SHIN-NY sends over 10 million alerts to care team members about patient emergency department or hospital visits. The SHIN-NY also shares diagnostic lab results electronically for more than 575,000 patients between providers each month. The efficiency that is facilitated by the SHIN-NY is associated with $160-195 million annually in unnecessary healthcare spending — including significant savings to Medicaid and Medicare.

An updated FAQ is available here.