The Maine Health Information Center (MHIC) was originally created by the major healthcare data providers and users in Maine to establish an independent data center where data could be maintained and made available in a uniform and valid manner to support decision making by the healthcare community; government agencies, employers and others. MHIC provides assistance to data providing and data using organizations in the collection, merger, analysis, and dissemination of healthcare status, utilization, cost, and resource data. The MHIC supports and promotes the use of high quality healthcare data as the basis for decisions in healthcare policy and management while guaranteeing to patients and practitioners and to providers and users of health data that the confidentiality of patient specific data provided to the MHIC shall be preserved.

Since 1996 the MHIC has been located in the Daniel F. Hanley Building in Manchester, Maine.
For more information, download a complete History of the MHIC (143K PDF format).