Health Information Exchange (HIE)

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Microsoft Taps Into mHealth

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2014

With nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes -- and racking up $245 billion in costs each year -- many stakeholders have been looking for innovative ways to help those individuals better keep tabs on their condition. With its new mobile health project, Microsoft is the latest company to offer a diabetes management platform...

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Military Health System Study Analyzes Privacy Challenges

Patrick Ouellette | HealthITSecurity.com | October 1, 2013

Considering the privacy issues with the Veterans Affairs (VA) recently, military health data privacy has been a hot-button issue in the healthcare sector lately. It seems as though the Military Health System concurs with the notion that a more formalized privacy procedures need to be put in place. Read More »

Mining Data For State CDC, Maine HIE Pilot Project Aims For Population Analysis

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | September 10, 2012

The Maine HealthInfoNet is aggregating and analyzing health information exchange data at the population level, with the aim of finding trends and specific figures that currently evade most tools of epidemiology. Read More »

Mirth Enters into Agreement to Power Arizona’s Statewide Health Information Exchange

Press Release | HINAz, Mirth, Quality Systems | January 8, 2015

Mirth, LLC... announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Health Information Network of Arizona (HINAz or The Network), Arizona’s statewide health information exchange (HIE) that is operated by Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC). Under the agreement, Mirth will power The Network’s secure bidirectional exchange of patient health information among The Network’s participants and will provide a technology upgrade to include four new service offerings: Direct Exchange; Admission-Discharge-Transfer (ADT) Alerts and Results Notifications; Public Health Reporting Gateway and eHealth Exchange.

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Mirth Technology to Power Statewide Health Information Exchange in Florida

Press Release | Mirth Corporation | February 10, 2011

Mirth Corporation, the leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, announced the selection of its open and standards-based healthcare interoperability suite to power the planned statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Florida. As part of the HIE implementation, Mirth technology will be made available to all healthcare providers statewide, delivered on the Mirth appliance framework. Read More »

Money Dries Up For HIEs, RECs

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | May 29, 2014

Although about 90 percent of New Hampshire's providers are using EHRs, "the use of that EHR and the amounts of structured data elements that are accurately being recorded is still a little bit disparate across the state," Loughlin said.  Bridging that gap with a statewide network is the NH HIE, which has signed up 60 organizations on multi-year contracts...

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Montana Workers Get PHRs In ONC Pilot; Florida Medicaid Records Go Online

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 4, 2012

City employees in Billings, Montana are now able to access their personal health records online as part of pilot project stemming from the Office of the National Coordinator's Consumer Innovation Challenge. Read More »

Mostashari Anticipates 'Big Win' in HIE in 2012

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | February 1, 2012

Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national health IT coordinator, expects health information exchange to ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place. The health information exchange strategy means finally bringing together the standards, identity authentication certificates, governance for rules of the road, and the availability of directories or digital provider phone books.

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Mostashari Expects Big Year Ahead for Data Exchange

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | February 3, 2012

Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. Read More »

Mostashari Talks 'Human Toll' Of Broken Health System

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | March 7, 2013

During the Thursday morning keynote at HIMSS13, the national coordinator for health IT, Farzad Mostashari, MD focused on the nation's broken healthcare system, while delving into a range of topics. Read More »

Mostashari: Slow But Steady Interoperability Progress

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | June 11, 2013

Achieving Farzad Mostashari’s vision for a U.S. healthcare system where “every encounter and every patient has access to all the world’s knowledge” will require a balancing of standards and innovation and a combination of IT and process change. Read More »

Moving Past the EHR Interoperability Blame Game

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD | NEJM Catalyst | February 22, 2017

As a researcher who studies electronic health records (EHRs), I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been asked “Why can’t the systems talk to each other?” or, in more technical terms, “Why don’t we have interoperability?” The substantial increase in electronic health record adoption across the nation has not led to health data that can easily follow a patient across care settings. Still today, essential pieces of information are often missing or cumbersome to access. Patients are frustrated, and clinicians can’t make informed decisions...

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Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Selects DrCloudEMR™ to Manage Behavioral Health Services

Press Release | DrCloud Healthcare Solutions, Inc., Muckleshoot Indian Tribe: | September 18, 2014

Muckleshoot Indian Tribe based in the State of Washington, a leader in the field of treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction and mental health for over fifty years, selects DrCloud Healthcare Solutions’ Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, DrCloudEMR™ to manage patient health care at their multiple facilities on the Muckleshoot Reservation. Read More »

Multiple New Reports on Interoperability Released

Two new reports on interoperability, and a related Call to Action were released in fall 2017 with potential impact on public health. The reports focus on the perceived successes and barriers to health information exchange and interoperability. We draw out the relevance of these reports to public health as well as some of our own observations on these issues from a past working paper. The Call to Action released by the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) calls on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demonstrate leadership and promote progress in a number of key areas.

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NATE Creates Bridge of Trust Between Providers and Patients

Press Release | National Association for Trusted Exchange | March 4, 2015

The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) today announced that the new NATE Blue Button for Consumers (NBB4C) Trust Bundle officially went live this week. Inaugural participants in the NBB4C Trust Community include some of the most widely used consumer health applications, including: Read More »