WISHIN’s Growth is Good for Wisconsin’s Health

The Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, Inc (WISHIN) looks forward to providing new services in 2026 after another record-breaking year in 2025.

In its annual report to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, WISHIN noted user activity grew substantially through 2025. WISHIN connects more than 2,000 sites of care and provides access to clinical data for more than 9 million unique patients. Since 2020, monthly usage of WISHIN Pulse has consistently been at record or near-record levels.

Examples of WISHIN Growth in the Past 5 Years

• Number of unique patients in the Master Patient Index is up 59%
• Number of Admission/Discharge/Transfer transactions is up more than 100%
• Number of Lab/Path transactions is up 72%
• Number of Radiology transactions is up 276%
• Number of Transcribed Reports (Clinical Notes/Discharge Reports/Advance Directives) is up more than 2,300%
• Number of Care Summaries is up almost 300%
• Number of Records Accessed in a year by WISHIN users is up more than 100%

WISHIN continued to expand and strengthen its network and improve the Wisconsin healthcare environment in 2025 by adding hospitals, health plans, Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs), Behavioral Health departments, home health agencies, primary care and safety net clinics, pharmacies, emergency medical service providers and more.

The work is not done. 2026 promises to be another productive year:

• The Wisconsin Poison Center, backboned by Children’s Wisconsin, started using WISHIN as it does virtual clinical consults with frontline providers treating poisoning victims across the state.
• WISHIN brought forward several modifications to the WISHIN Participation Agreement in 2025 and successfully got them approved by both the WISHIN Participant Advisory Board and the WISHIN Board of Directors. The seven approved modifications that went into effect January 19^th, 2026, were:
  • Aligning public health activities with Federal Regulation
  • Including ADRCs, WIC Agencies and CIS as participants
  • Explicitly authorizing the exchange of SDOH data
  • Committing payors to strengthen provider communication for care coordination activities
  • Harmonizing existing payor access use cases
  • Addition of Risk Adjustment/Management to existing use cases
  • Addition of Population Health Analytics use cases
• WISHIN was included in DHS’s Rural Health Transformation Project application and stands ready to work alongside the state in 2026 to implement the work.

WISHIN Connects Wisconsin

WISHIN has grown exponentially since it was formed in 2010. That growth will continue in 2026. Become part of the WISHIN network. Contact us at https://wishin.org/contact-us/