National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC)

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$564 Million Later, Little Health Information Exchange Happening

Ken Terry | Information Week | April 3, 2012

The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), a public-private partnership funded by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, has released a report on current efforts to promote health information exchanges (HIEs), along with some suggestions on the best ways for healthcare communities to build HIEs. Read More »

Associations Call On ONC To Include Patient-Generated Data In Stage 3

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 5, 2013

As policymakers start designing the third phase of Meaningful Use, eight healthcare and IT groups are asking the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee to commit to including patient-generated health data in the requirements. Read More »

Blue Button Set For Improvements

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | January 17, 2013

Federal health information technology officials highlighted Jan. 16 efforts to give patients the ability to download personal health record data via the Blue Button initiative. Read More »

Health IT Collaborative Releases Patient Engagement Guide

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | November 19, 2012

Healthcare providers wanting a recipe to follow to improve patient engagement within their organizations can start by looking over the Patient Engagement Framework released by the National eHealth Collaborative. Read More »

HIMSS Foundation And National eHealth Collaborative Merge

Press Release | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) | December 23, 2013

Focused on better health and greater value through information technology, the HIMSS Foundation and the National eHealth Collaborative announce a merger.  Both organizations embrace a similar mission to engage with all stakeholders to drive positive change in healthcare with IT and provide a single, mission-driven voice and focus; NeHC will fold into the HIMSS Foundation. Read More »

IHE Standards Come Of Age In The Age Of Interoperability

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 20, 2012

At the Radiological Society of North America’s annual conference this year, a real-world use case of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) medical image and personal health record standards is slated for demonstration. Read More »

VA to Make National VLER Deployment Decision

Jennifer Prestigiacomo | Healthcare Informatics | October 7, 2011

Some light was shed on the progress that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been making on its Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) project at a National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) webinar earlier this week. Read More »