Health Information Exchanges (HIE) news and information

The New York eHealth Collaborative has announced the three winners of its Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, launched earlier this year in which designers submitted portal prototypes for the not-for-profit organization.
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Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician...
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Kaiser Permanente Northwest is the newest member of the Oregon Health Network, a not-for-profit network that created Oregon's first broadband telehealth system.
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Cognosante, which provides information technology services to healthcare organizations, appointed Michael Lundie on April 8 to lead its health information exchange practice.
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Louisiana is almost entirely rural with just 27% of its people living outside major metropolitan areas. But no state faced greater challenges in bringing electronic health records to its rural areas in the past decade.
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The rising tide of smartphones and other mobile computing devices and their impact on healthcare information network security were the key concerns raised by healthcare IT executives in a focus group session and a subsequent report by HIMSS Analytics.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Last June, MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 5 on that list: Participating in CMS' EHR meaningful-use incentive program.
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New Yorkers yesterday got to test-drive the designs of nine companies that entered the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge sponsored by the New York eHealth Collaborative, in partnership with Health 2.0.
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The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has agreed to license its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a new for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
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