Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) has gone live with data exchange statewide. CRISP officials call it a "major step" toward the delivery of critical health information to the right place at the right time.
CIOs who are keeping a close watch on the Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Regional Extension Center (REC) efforts in their states are worried the country might be building a Tower of Babel, as Catherine M. Szenczy, senior vice president and CIO of MedStar Health in Columbia, Md., put it.
New Zealand and Slovenia used the Global eHealth Forum in Hamburg (October 25/26, 2010) to present themselves as innovative eHealth markets.
The nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD, acknowledged that achieving meaningful use of health IT would be hard work, and then told his audience of more than 600 health system and hospital CIOs and IT managers there would be even harder work ahead.
The inaugural Global eHealth Forum, a successor to the Baltic eHealth Conference, opened today in Hamburg, Germany. More than 200 delegates have already registered for the event, making it one of the highlights on the annual eHealth events calendar from the outset.
Vangent, Inc., a provider of information management and strategic business process technology, has been awarded a $15.6 million contract by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.
About 75 percent of Minnesotans' patient records are online thanks to a user group that has connected eight of the state's largest healthcare organizations and is expected to connect two more organizations within the year.
The state of Iowa is developing a strategic business and financial sustainability plan for a statewide health information exchange (HIE). According to officials, the plan is being developed in partnership with Hielix, a creator of operationally sustainable, open solutions to seamlessly exchange health information, and MEDNET, a provider of nationwide health information network (NHIN) connectivity and HIE solutions.
Health information exchanges can help solve problems that plague the healthcare system, an executive with one of the country's oldest community health information exchanges told attendees at the National Regional Extension Center/Health Information Exchange Summit West in San Francisco on Oct. 5.
In a move aimed to help the healthcare industry accelerate the use of electronic medical records, Verizon is expanding its Medical Data Exchange platform to allow the sharing of more types of digital patient health information.