Health Information Exchanges (HIE) news and information

Here's a thought. When it comes to privacy and security, all patient information is equal. This isn't a new idea, of course.
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Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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Healthcare consulting company Qualidigm has appointed Timothy Elwell to CEO, effective immediately.
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Two private-sector initiatives to promote health information exchange received a total of $480,000 in federal grants to collaborate with the government on developing governance models for exchange activities.
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A coalition of five electronic health-record developers created a buzz and a controversy last month when they announced they were forming the CommonWell Health Alliance to promote health information exchange.
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Five Tennessee healthcare organizations have joined a pilot project to exchange information using the federally developed Direct secure-messaging protocol.
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, in reprising a work it did 20 years ago, will research and produce by year's end a comprehensive report on the state of the art of health information exchange in the U.S.
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Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, the state's administrator of federal health information exchange grant funding under the stimulus law, has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan has become the first health plan in the state to join as a qualified data-sharing...
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Healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from health information exchanges.
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The University of Colorado Hospital, a member of the University of Colorado Health system, has signed an agreement to join the Denver-based Colorado Regional Health Information Organization.
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