Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The U.S. Army awarded healthcare software provider InterSystems Corp. a grant to deploy its technology to set up health information exchange services among military and commercial healthcare providers across the Puget Sound, Wash., region.
Covisint announced on Monday its acquisition of DocSite, a Raleigh, N.C.-based clinical decision support and quality performance management company whose web-based solutions aim to make better patient care easier for docs.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have launched their fourth virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) data sharing pilot in Spokane, Wash., the latest in a program aimed at testing the exchange of patient information over the nationwide health information network (NHIN).
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will analyze data submitted by Quality Health Network to see if health information exchange positively impacts the use of healthcare services.
Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) in Kansas City, Mo., is boosting its care coordination through an automated ordering process that links its ambulatory physicians with hospital and freestanding reference laboratories, imaging centers and patients.
Eleven healthcare organizations in New York State will receive a total $109 million in state grants to improve the coordination of healthcare through the use of health information technology.
A new federal health IT advisory panel is at work on setting up a means of governing the nationwide health information network (NHIN) in a way that will earn the trust of healthcare providers and consumers and expand its use by the healthcare community.
The tiny state of Rhode Island is in many ways the perfect place for proving efficacy and interoperability of various healthcare information technologies. Its modest size makes it especially well suited to test-run the exchange of medical information.
Even as the Office of the National Coordinator named Cincinnati and Detroit as its final two of 17 Beacon Communities on Sept. 2, it was already at work on measures designed to share what IT approaches work best for the Beacons with clinics and medical practices across the country.
CareSpark, a nonprofit regional health information organization (RHIO) serving Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, is proving the value of health information exchanges through several projects that rely on its provider registry.