Health Information Exchange (HIE)

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HIMSS14: Open Health Presentations at Annual Health IT Conference

As we outlined in our earlier article, "HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibit Opening with Open Source," open source software as well as collaboration and interoperability in health information technology (HIT) has reached break out levels and the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida. Below are some of the conference presentations related to open health. Note the large number of presentations the award-winning VistA EHR developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its derivative RPMS developed by the Indian Health Service (IHS). Read More »

HIMSS18 RosettaHealth Showcases Power of Community in Breaking Down Health Data Exchange Barriers at HIMSS

Press Release | RosettaHealth | February 22, 2018

RosettaHealth, an innovative and secure, big health data interoperability platform, today announced that it will be hosting a “community” of organizations making true strides in breaking down health data exchange barriers at HIMSS 2018. Joined by HASA, the community HIE for North, South and West Texas, IMAT Solutions, SocialClime and Shatzkin Systems in HIMSS Booth #11418, RosettaHealth will showcase how it takes a diverse cast of HIEs, vendors, and startups to make health data exchange truly work. “It’s no secret that breaking down the barriers of health data interoperability is a major challenge in the healthcare arena, which will surely be a major discussion topic at HIMSS 2018,” said Buff Colchagoff, CEO of RosettaHealth. “This HIMSS we’re demonstrating how ubiquitous health data exchange comes to life when you act as a community.”

HIMSS: Public Health and HIE – Cloud-Based Services

Noam Arzt | Government Health IT | March 5, 2012

As more and more healthcare providers acquire and deploy EHR systems over the next few years, an increasing proportion of those deployments will be cloud-based, especially among smaller providers. This offers a safer, more reliable, more resilient deployment option so long as network connectivity remains in place and the cloud service provider maintains health data in a secure manner.

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HIT Vendor Alliance Comments On Lifting Interoperability Barriers

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | April 26, 2013

The CommonWell Health Alliance, announced in March and comprising a handful of health information technology vendors collaborating to cooperate on systems interoperability issues, has responded to a federal request for information on ways to advance interoperability and health information exchange. Read More »

Hospital Health Information Exchange by the Numbers

Kyle Murphy, PhD | EHR Intelligence | February 8, 2016

Health information exchange technology is in use among hospitals across the country.
While advancing interoperability is the aim of several current federal health IT initiatives, health information exchange is already occurring. The mechanisms for exchanging health data exchange differ as to their output and usability, but they do bridge information gaps between healthcare providers...

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Hospital Mergers Make HIE Integration Even Tougher

Anne Zieger | Hospital EMR and EHR | February 8, 2012

...hospitals continue to merge and sell out to larger health systems, in some cases at an almost manic pace. I don’t have the space to list even a few of the mergers that are dominating business coverage, but I’m sure you know of one in almost every market where you work or have business. These mergers will frequently bring together different EMRs, or even the same EMR configured differently. Not only that, within each hospital, in all likelihood the EMR will have been integrated with internal departments and systems differently. In other words, even two Epic systems aren’t going to marry up easily.

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Hospitals Lagging In Assessing Interoperability Needs

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | October 2, 2012

Though healthcare executives understand the importance of timely electronic exchange of information among care providers, nearly half have yet to fully assess their health information exchange and interoperability needs, according to an ECRI Institute survey. Read More »

How Do You Change HIE Software Platforms? Very Carefully!

David Raths | Healthcare Informatics | July 8, 2013

HealtheConnections RHIO execs detail lessons learned about changing horses in midstream Read More »

How Fast is Health IT Spreading and What Are the Benefits

Chris Fleming | Health Affairs Blog | March 9, 2012

Adoption of health information technology (IT) throughout the health care system is “on the march,” according to Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health IT. Nearly 2,000 US hospitals and more than 41,000 doctors have now met the standards for achieving meaningful use of health IT, and have received $3.1 billion in federal incentive payments as a result. Read More »

Humetrix Featured At TEDMED 2013

Press Release | Humetrix | April 11, 2013

Humetrix One of Selected Innovators for "The Hive"; Company to Showcase iBlueButton Patient-Controlled Health Information Exchange Mobile Apps Read More »

Humetrix Launches Cross-Platform iBlueButton® Mobile Apps Enabling Patient-Physician Exchange Of Health Records Between Apple And Android Devices

Press Release | Humetrix | February 21, 2013

Humetrix today introduced cross-platform capability for its award-winning iBlueButton® apps, enabling consumers and physicians for the first time to securely exchange health records and other clinical information at the point of care, regardless of whether they use an iPhone®, iPad® or Android smartphone. Read More »

Humetrix Upgrades iBlueButton App To Support Caregivers; Demos New Features At mHealth Summit Booth 1407

Press Release | Blue Button, iBlueButton, Humetrix | December 9, 2013

Humetrix will today preview version 5.0 of its signature iBlueButton app, enhanced with “caregiver” features that allow anyone to view, download and share with doctors their own medical records, as well as those of loved ones, all via their smartphone or tablet. [...] Read More »

Humetrix’s iBlueButton Chosen For California Health Information Exchange Pilot

Press Release | California’s Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII), National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) , Humetrix, iBlueButton | October 23, 2013

Humetrix, a provider of consumer-centric mobile healthcare applications, and the developer of the multi-award-winning iBlueButton app, today announced that the State of California Office of Health Information Integrity (OHII) has chosen iBlueButton to participate in its upcoming Health Information Exchange (HIE) pilot. [...] Read More »

i2b2 Open Source Software Boosts HIE, Biomedical Research

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 16, 2012

The health informatics software i2b2 — Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside — was started in 2006, and has become something of a building block for several health information networks and research projects in genomics, pharmaceuticals and population health. Read More »

Idaho Image Exchange Goes Live

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | May 30, 2013

The Idaho Health Data Exchange has launched an image exchange with St. Luke's Health System in Boise.

With HIE services provided by eHealth Technologies, the image exchange allows physicians, clinicians and hospitals to collaborate on diagnostic-quality images through a web app. Read More »