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Michigan doctors treating patients from Indiana, and Indiana physicians treating Michigan patients, can now securely exchange health records thanks to a new partnership between Michigan Health Connect (MHC) and Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN).

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and the nonprofit Rhode Island Quality Institute have announced the launch of an incentive program for Rhode Island primary care physicians to adopt and use CurrentCare, Rhode Island's health information exchange. The program is designed to reward primary care physicians who are advancing health information technology and the health information exchange in the state.

KHIN and LACIE have tried but failed to reach agreement about secondary use of data, according to a story on the Kansas Health Institute web site. Although sharing data would be valuable for providers in the state and the technical details around exchange have been worked out, it is not happening yet.

The New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) will be providing its members with the Direct Project capabilities, which allows provider to securely exchange health information over the internet.

The East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) is implementing a solution to enable secure direct provider-to-provider messaging exchange of electronic health information, through DataMotion (Morristown, N.J.), the organization announced recently.