August 21, 2012 David Raths
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The journey for statewide HIEs has been slow-going and fraught with challenges of governance, consent, security, auditing structure, and secondary data use. Executive directors of statewide health information exchanges speak about the policy hurdles they have encountered, and those that still lay ahead.
August 17, 2012
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The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), the organization which operates the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY), announced a partnership with New York City’s Interboro Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). The Interboro RHIO’s covers hospitals, trauma centers, long-term care facilities, diagnostic centers, and private practices within the City of New York.
August 14, 2012
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Texas Health Resources, the Arlington, Texas-based large health system, is set to roll out a health information exchange from Salt Lake City-based Medicity. The HIE will exchange data throughout Texas Health’s 25 inpatient, transitional, rehabilitation and short-stay hospitals, 18 outpatient facilities, and more than 5,500 affiliated physicians.
August 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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New South Wales (NSW) Health in Australia has completed the first phase of an ambitious project to create a statewide health imaging exchange. Healthcare accounts for 27 percent of total government spending in Australia, and with an aging population with increased chronic conditions, there is potential for an enterprise image repository (EIR) to improve diagnosis and lead to better patient outcomes.
August 6, 2012 David Raths
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What do you do when 1 percent of a city's population makes up 30 percent of hospital costs? And 13 percent of patients account for 80 percent of the costs? If you're Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., a physician working in one of the poorest cities in the country, Camden, N.J., you attack the problem head on. And hospital data gathered in a health information exchange is at the heart of the effort.
August 3, 2012
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has announced that the state is moving ahead with its statewide health information exchange (HIE), which will be built from $16.9 million in funds from the Obama administration via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The funding will support phase one of the HIE, which will put in place a management team, governance structure, and operations staff to develop it from the ground up.
July 30, 2012
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The North Carolina Health Information Exchange (NC HIE) is implementing a direct messaging function from Orion Health (Santa Monica, Calif.) in an effort to expand its capabilities. The direct messaging function will aim to provide a secure communications network for healthcare organizations throughout the state, allowing the sharing of health data between physicians and facilities.
July 25, 2012
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently released guidelines for statewide health information exchanges to use direct clinical messaging. The guidelines are ONC’s aim to help health information service providers (HISPs) with the perceived need for peer-to-peer legal agreements, allowing them to seamlessly exchange messages.
July 24, 2012 David Raths
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Ninety-eight percent of Denmark's general practitioners and all pharmacies and hospitals use a national health data network, as do 74 percent of specialists, according to a recent Accenture study. A national e-health portal acts as a single access point to healthcare services for both citizens and health professionals.
July 17, 2012
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A new report from the Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Health Insights looked at the evolution of the health information exchange (HIE) market, concluding the market’s focus is shifting. The study, IDC MarketScape: U.S. Health Information Exchange Platform Solutions 2012 Vendor Assessment, says the shift has gone from connecting the ecosystem to exchange data and qualify for meaningful use incentives, to turning data into "actionable information" that enables emerging accountable care or collaborative care initiatives.
July 17, 2012
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The Hawai'i Island Beacon Community (HIBC) is expanding the region's first health information exchange (HIE), after a pilot phase which began last December at North Hawai'i Community Hospital. The Hawaiian HIE will aim to move from island to island, enabling doctors to easily view and share patient records from participating hospitals, doctors' offices, imaging centers, pharmacies, laboratories and other practices.
July 17, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Much important work is currently underway to develop vocabulary, packaging, and transport standards for health information exchange (HIE), according to last week’s National eHealth Collaborative ONC Anniversary Event, which highlighted the collaborative work of the Beacon Communities and seven EHR companies (NextGen, Greenway, GE, Allscripts, Vitera, Cerner and SuccessEHS) that are working together to accelerate interoperability and exchange.
