Health Information Exchange (HIE)

In a major metropolitan experiment, a regional health information exchange is aggressively pursuing the goal of connecting 100 percent of providers and 90 percent of hospitals by 2016.

An arm of the Defense Department's Military Health System joined the HIE to improve the quality of care while also reducing costs.

The healthcare industry is becoming more enlightened about the benefits of the Blue Button Initiative, and adoption of personal health records continues to grow, according to a new report from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange.

A new partnership between a Portland, Oregon, behavioral health services provider and a local health system will use an HIE tool to link the hospital's acute care data with a specialty behavioral health EHR.

The Interoperability Showcase is one of the biggest and most buzzworthy facets of the annual HIMSS conference and this year's shindig in Chicago promises to be better than ever.

Electronic health record giant Epic Systems, often criticized for its closed architecture, will soon open an app store -- enabling outside developers to create programs that will work with its EHRs.

The Oregonian talks hacky sacks, standards and the one technology realm where the healthcare industry is on the vanguard.

Users rank their favorite HIE technology makers, while the exchanges face continuing challenges.

Novant Health's electronic health record system is now connected to the Department of Veterans Affairs through the federal eHealth Exchange.

In a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner this past Friday, a who's-who of healthcare stakeholders laid out their list of desired improvements to the Medicare Shared Savings Program.