HIE

HealthBridge, a Cincinnati-based healthcare information exchange (HIE) organization and the Ohio Health Information Partnership have announced the launch of connectivity between the two organizations through the use of Direct, an emerging national standard for securely exchanging health information among healthcare providers.

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.

HealthInfoNet, the Portland, Maine-based non-profit that operates the statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced that it has signed every single acute-care hospital within the state to connect to the query-based HIE.

The Florida Health Exchange (HIE) has facilitated a service that will now allow providers to query medical records of participating healthcare organizations for individual patient data, and two large organizations have announced their participation. The providers, Strategic Health Intelligence of Pensacola and Atlantic Coast Health Information Exchange of Miramar, are using what’s called the Florida Health Information Exchange Patient Look-Up Service.

South Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records (EHR) of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) health information exchange (HIE).