July 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Children's Care Alliance (CCA) is working with Alere Accountable Care Solutions (ACS)—a Waltham, Mass.-based health information solutions provider--to create a health information exchange (HIE) for underserved children in the Lehigh Valley area of northeastern Pennsylvania.
July 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The three year period in which the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) will fund the Beacon Community Program is coming to an end, and one Beacon is preparing for the “after life.” San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange’s Dan Chavez is looking forward to self-sustainability and an organization of trust.
July 17, 2013 David Raths
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Health information exchange executives spend a lot of time investigating possible sources of revenue to guarantee their sustainability beyond the era of federal grants. Could providing a patient portal that crosses health system boundaries be one of the value-added services they provide? Patients who see eight to 10 providers a year do not want to create their own records by cobbling together information from multiple health systems.
July 15, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The New Jersey State Department of Health has announced an award of $1.57 million to a coalition of health organizations to create and operate a statewide network that will enable the sharing of patient health information electronically.
July 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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While health information exchanges (HIEs) continue to grow in number, those who are participating say sustainability remains an issue, according to the results of a new survey that appears in the latest issue of the healthcare policy journal Health Affairs.
July 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Network Health, a nonprofit health plan that delivers health coverage to more than 215,000 Massachusetts residents, has received a $75,000 grant to implement a partnership with Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) on the Massachusetts Health Information Highway (Mass HIway), the statewide HIE network. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s MeHI has awarded the grant to make the connection possible.
July 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The Utah Health information Network's Jan Root shares the story of the journey of her HIE organization, which has evolved forward from an early-stage CHIN 20 years ago to a leading-edge, statewide HIE today. And she talks about why accreditation makes sense for HIE leaders seeking to ensure the confidence of their communities.
July 8, 2013 David Raths
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HealtheConnections' transition required a lot of planning and forethought, a close working relationship with the new vendor on data migration and project management, and the RHIO team's confidence that it could manage the transition without upsetting data providers or users.
June 19, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Healtheway, a non-profit collaborative effort for health data interoperability between private and public organizations, has announced its nine founding organizations for the eHealth Exchange initiative. The group includes health IT heavyweight, Epic (Verona, Wisc.), the American Medical Association (AMA), and integrated care delivery provider, Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.).
June 12, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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With more than 1.3 million unique patient identities in its master person index, the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC) is rapidly growing as the state’s health information exchange (HIE). NMHIC CIO Craig Hewitt recently spoke to HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal about challenges, HIE trends, and how the government can better enable health information exchange.
May 28, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued an implementation guideline in an attempt to help providers and stakeholders properly and effectively implement Direct. Direct is a federally-developed program that has aimed to create a platform that faciliates the secure exchange of authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the internet.
May 21, 2013 David Raths
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At last week's California HIE Stakeholder Summit in Sacramento, two announcements were made involving organizations seeking to build trust mechanisms between health information exchanges.
