Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid and Shared Health have launched an electronic health record and electronic prescribing system for more than one half million Medicaid beneficiaries.
Health information exchanges cannot share sensitive patient information beyond a simple point-to-point exchange without first obtaining a patient's consent, concluded the federal privacy and security tiger team.
With states either submitting or receiving approval from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT of their strategic and operational plans for statewide HIEs, the HIE market is booming for vendors.
The Ingenix buying spree marches on. In its third major acquisition in less than a month - after its purchase of Picis and Executive Health Resources - the firm, which is the health IT division of UnitedHealth Group, announced on Monday that it is adding San Jose, Calif-based Axolotl to the fold.
GE Healthcare announced that its Centricity Practice Solution version 9.5 has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and is a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, with additional certification for child health and cardiovascular medicine with advanced reporting.
ONC has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network. The contracts, awarded to systems integrator Stanley Inc., follow another $6 million contract announced on Aug. 2.
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is preparing to launch a formal rulemaking to establish rules of the road for the nationwide health information network, a process policymakers hope will clear the way for large and small organizations to use the NHIN.
The Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange (HIE) is working on its user authentication and identity proofing to ensure patient privacy.
Humana and athenahealth have announced an alliance, combining Humana's Primary Care Rewards Program with athenahealth's EHR service.
Axolotl has announced the availability of its new Elysium Express, which offers quick, easy and affordable hospital-to-physician and physician-to-physician connectivity.