February 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In a blog post, the director of federal health architecture at the Office for the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC), Lauren Thompson, announced the arrival of version 4.0 of the government's CONNECT software. CONNECT, which is an open source health information exchange (HIE) platform, has been a joint effort between ONC, the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
February 1, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN) has released a new online tool for medical providers that will gauge their readiness to participate in health information exchange (HIE).
January 29, 2013 David Raths
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Setting the stage for the Jan. 29 joint hearing of the federal HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee on health information exchange (HIE) challenges, Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, described how the industry has evolved to “HIE 2.0.”
January 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at the Colorado Beacon Consortium are leveraging powerful analytics and health information exchange tools to support region-wide, physician practice-based population health tools, for the benefit of patients scattered across the Rocky Mountain west.
January 26, 2013 David Raths
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Developing workable, scalable and realistic financial sustainability models for HIEs remains a challenge that must be addressed
January 25, 2013 David Raths
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The agency charged with boosting health information exchange in California has announced two new grant programs targeting rural HIEs and innovations in data analytics. A notice sent out Jan. 25 by the California Health eQuality (CHeQ) program managed by the University of California-Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) says the Rural HIE Incentive Program seeks to establish an ongoing mechanism and structure through which rural medical communities may evaluate and contract with pre-selected HIE service providers.
January 24, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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This week, the Missouri Health Connection announced alongside the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII) and Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) that the three states had successfully exchanged Direct messages across state lines. Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna caught up with MHC’s chief operating officer, Mindy Mazur, about this exchange and how it went down.
January 24, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC), the state’s health information exchange (HIE), has selected New Zealand-based Orion Health’s HIE platform to power the statewide exchange and expand the capabilities it offers to healthcare providers across New Mexico.
January 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In the Midwest, three states, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska have successfully exchanged Direct messages across state lines, according to The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), and Missouri Health Connection (MHC). This comes after Missouri and Illinois recently announced they had exchanged test messages.
January 19, 2013 Mark Hagland
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David Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., CEO of the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative, a Portland, Maine-based collaborative organization founded by four integrated health systems in New England, shares his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities involved in laying the IT foundations for accountable care
January 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced $1.5 billion in new grants for 11 states to continue building their insurance exchanges.
January 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) has announced it will offer Direct Project messaging services to providers through AlliedHIE Company, a certified health information services provider (HISP) launched by Nashville-based Informatics Corporation of America (ICA).
