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HIMSS has announced that the HIMSS Foundation and the National eHealth Collaborative have merged. NeHC has worked closely with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT as well as other public and private organizations to encourage effective use of health IT.

The National eHealth Collaborative's Health Information Exchange Learning Network has recommendations for tackling some of the most challenging HIE issues.

One week after unveiling its Patient Engagement Framework, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has launched an online tool meant to help health organizations track their progress on involving patients in their care.

Kate Berry, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, which recently released a roadmap for establishing and operating successful health information exchanges (see page XX), figures she caught the healthcare bug from her family. Her parents met in a hospital. Her mother, a dietician, ran the cafeteria and later did public health research. At the time, her father was studying for his doctorate in biochemistry. Her sister is a physical therapist.

As National eHealth Collaborative CEO Kate Berry sees it, patient care will improve with the secure, easy and sustainable exchange of medical records between healthcare providers. To that end, NeHC, a public-private partnership focused on accelerating progress toward widespread, secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange, last month released a roadmap for establishing and operating successful health information exchanges. The map addresses building, operating and sustaining the HIEs.

Inland and Rhode Island HIEs overcome hurdles of sharing with disparate EHRs, customization, and various data sets to supply patient analytics.

The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) recognized 12 organizations as leaders in the health information exchange space in a report that it released this week identifying what it took to be a successful HIE.

Group intends to "provide a robust view of the rapidly evolving HIT ecosystem," CEO Kate Berry says.

The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) announced last week the creation of "NHIN University," a program designed to educate and engage healthcare IT stakeholders on efforts to develop the Nationwide Health Information Network.

When it comes to healthcare IT advancement, there is a lot riding on committees.