Health Information Exchange (HIE)

It serves as a clinical decision-support tool providing structured clinical workflows for managing outpatients at sub-health centres.

Technical barriers, workforce limitation, privacy concerns and cost may all contribute to lower rates of electronic exchange of health information by mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities, a new analysis shows.

Healthcare organizations should be strategic about bidirectional data exchange opportunities to reduce duplication and enhance the efficiency of data pipelines, says J. Josh Wilda, University of Iowa Health Care's AVP for information systems and CIDO.

Thirteen hospitals and 374 clinics are now exchanging patient medical records directly with the Social Security Administration through the nationwide interoperability network.

The Caliper FHIR Accelerator implementation community has been organized with multiple industry partners and collaborators to improve medical and personal health devices data exchange.

Helen Hill, VP and CIO of Michigan-based SEMHIE and a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, has helped launch MiHIN, the Michigan health information exchange. She also chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE.

A data architect at Texas' Midland Memorial Hospital offers some up-close perspective on the state of data exchange today, and describes what needs to be done to get to a state of "true" interoperability.

The Korean hospital has been revalidated at Stage 7 of the HIMSS INFRAM.

A second version release is now being planned and defined, according to the Australian Digital Health Agency.

With the VA Interoperability Pledge, Veteran Confirmation API and other efforts, the agency has improved cross-sector collaboration, coordinating care and benefits for more than 1 million veterans, said speakers at HIMSS26.