Health Information Exchanges (HIE) news and information

Hospitals and medical groups are the organizations that most commonly see uninsured patients and have a powerful incentive to find a payment source. You might think they would play a major role in signing up uninsured Americans for subsidized private...
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When Anuj Desai thinks about information technology interoperability, it's not in the common healthcare context of barriers to health data exchange, but rather, with a view to its infinite possibilities.
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Four upstate New York regional health information organizations on Friday announced new connectivity allowing “secure” exchange of electronic medical records between healthcare professionals in Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany.
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Every day when a patient goes to the drug store, within the course of a few questions and a few key strokes, a clerk or pharmacist can match that patient to the right electronic prescription and insurance records in their computer system.
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Building in-house healthcare technology is a daunting task, especially in a market dominated by off-the-shelf options like Epic and Cerner. But those options can be expensive and disruptive to existing physician workflow, leading a number of health organizations to start from scratch.
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Operators of several major hospitals in Hawaii have agreed to share medical records through a new state-run online system.
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Kansas' health information exchange has been years and millions of dollars in the making but because of an ongoing dispute between its two networks, it still lacks the capability to handle the exchange of digital patient records across the entire state.
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The organization launching a regional health information exchange with health systems in Bexar County and 21 surrounding counties will partner with a San Antonio company to develop an online portal for consumers. Healthcare Access San Antonio, known as HASA, expects to make the portal available to...
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California's Inland Empire Health Information Exchange is adding Prime Healthcare Services to its network, making patient health information available across all of the hospitals in Prime's fast-growing roster of facilities across the country.
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Surescripts, the for-profit electronic prescription network owned by pharmacy associations and pharmacy benefit management companies, is adding 19 state, regional and private health information exchanges to its portfolio of heath information exchange services.
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