Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The development of secure health information exchange between healthcare providers is a nationwide initiative and has been touted as a high priority in order to improve the continuity and quality of care for patients. Providers are required to achieve secure HIE in order to achieve "meaningful use," and qualify for health IT incentives set up by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. On September 28, 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT completed its selection of 62 Regional Extension Centers across the United States -- a major component in HIE development.

 

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Texas moves forward with HIE plans
The Texas Health Services Authority, a public-private partnership established to develop the state's health information exchanges, is moving forward with its HIE plans after officials announced Wednesday they have selected an infrastructure platform.
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April 4, 2013
Erin McCann
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Mostashari, policy committee take critical look at CommonWell
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari and the federal Health IT Policy Committee on April 3 took a hard look at a new vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability, called the CommonWell Health Alliance.
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April 4, 2013
Diana Manos
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Workgroup: Cut variation to spur HIE
Although HIE "is advancing rapidly" in much of the country, "it is being held back by demand--and supply-side friction created by variation in federal and state programs and policies that give unequal and sometimes conflicting emphasis on interoperability," Micky Tripathi, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative president and the federal Health IT Policy Committee's HIE workgroup chair told the panel April 3.
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April 4, 2013
Anthony Brino
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Alaska HIE pilot slated to go live
Initiatives by the Alaska eHealth Network aim to connect hospitals and clinics in the nation's northernmost metropolitan region to the state's health information exchange.
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April 2, 2013
Erin McCann
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HL7 standards, IP now at no cost
Making good on its promise, Health Level Seven International's primary standards and other intellectual property are now available to license at no cost. The decision represents HL7's commitment to the betterment of healthcare worldwide by ensuring that all stakeholders have equal access to its HIT standards, officials said.
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April 2, 2013
Bernie Monegain
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5 Tennessee providers deploy Direct
Five healthcare organizations in Tennessee announced Thursday they will toss their hats into the ring for the pilot phase of a new Volunteer State initiative called Health eShare, implementing Direct Project protocols to exchange patient data.
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March 28, 2013
Mike Miliard
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Caradigm platform to integrate Orion Health HIE capabilities
Caradigm, the joint health IT venture formed by Microsoft and GE Healthcare, announced that it will integrate health information exchange technology from Orion Health into its analytics platform.
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March 27, 2013
Mike Miliard
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ACOs doomed to fail?
Accountable care organizations might be today's hope for grappling with healthcare costs and bumping up quality, but according to one expert, they are doomed to fail without one key element.
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March 25, 2013
Diana Manos
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House panel grills Mostashari on delay of widespread interoperability
Today in the third of three hearings held by subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, reassured a congressional panel that health IT interoperability will take some dramatic leaps forward within the next two years.
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March 21, 2013
Diana Manos
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New online report shows health rankings by state and county
A new report released Wednesday examines the health and well-being of people living in nearly every county in the United States, and finds that rates of premature deaths are at the lowest level in 20 years.
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March 20, 2013
Diana Manos
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Maryland HIE lauded by state officials
As many statewide health information exchanges have revised the scope of their work, Maryland's Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients, or CRISP, has forged ahead as both a primary HIE and a supporter of IT adoption for providers around the state.
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March 20, 2013
Anthony Brino
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Delaware, Kansas HIEs exchange Direct
Two of the nation's largest health information exchanges are now exchanging Direct messages across state borders, officials announced Tuesday.
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March 19, 2013
Erin McCann
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Leveraging Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Enabling Personalized Medicine for High-Quality Care, Better Outcomes
In March 2012, the Obama Administration launched a $200 million “Big Data Research and Development Initiative,” which aims to transform the use of big data for scientific discovery and biomedical research, among other areas. Stakeholders now need to come together to take advantage of market conditions and realize the value of the incredible amount of important data in a more efficient and expeditious manner. In the spirit of collaboration and as part of the Intel Innovations Summit, the global technology leader in computing convened four thought leaders to share how their respective industries are meeting challenges and utilizing big data.
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November 15, 2012
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Advanced Text Mining Improves Medicare Advantage Coding
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are private health plans that have contracted with <a href="/directory/medicare" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Medicare</a> to receive a fixed monthly fee in exchange for providing comprehensive healthcare to plan members. In order to provide appropriate care to beneficiaries with varying medical conditions, plans are paid according to the Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score of each patient. Insufficient documentation of chronic conditions can be an obstacle to MA reimbursement. However, even when a condition has been properly documented by the provider, it is often not coded and submitted to Medicare. Read this white paper to learn how to take the complexity out of MA reimbursement.
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November 9, 2012
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Sizing Up Your Cloud Options - Is Now the Time?
A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare <a href="/directory/cloud-computing" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Cloud Computing</a> and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.
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November 7, 2012
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Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Errors during all Points of Care
Barcodes, in the healthcare environment, are a patient’s voice. They identify, communicate and connect the patient accurately with his or her records from the moment care begins. Whether it’s at check-in, at the bedside or in the lab, barcodes help protect patients’ safety and reduce medical errors – which can cost your organization millions of dollars. This white paper that discusses how barcodes can be the patient’s voice – and save your organization from costly errors – during patient identification procedures, medication administration at the bedside, as well as in the lab during specimen collection and tracking.
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November 1, 2012
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Meaningful Use Stage 2: A handbook for providers
Meaningful Use Stage 2: A handbook for providers discusses the changes in Stage 2 following the release of the final rules. This report focuses on what providers should expect, technology challenges and business opportunities in Stage 2 criteria, and key enterprise strategies for Stage 2 initiatives.
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October 29, 2012
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Physical Security for Healthcare Devices and Equipment
Electronic locks and latches provide enhanced security where healthcare facilities need it the most – on the carts and cabinets that house valuable medical supplies and patient information. Electronic locks provide secure locking and audit trail capabilities that can help healthcare IT managers comply with industry regulations such as HIPAA and <a href="/directory/health-information-technology-economic-and-clinical-health-hitech-act" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">HITECH</a>. This white paper explores opportunities for improved physical security in the healthcare environment and reviews electronic access solutions available to equipment manufacturers.
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October 16, 2012
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Intelligently Leverage Patient Record for Optimal Quality Measurements
Successful ACOs must assemble a consistent and complete view of patient’s clinical history for efficient access by care providers/managers. In addition, data intelligence is needed to establish patient risk profiles, treatment adherence, and clinical and cost trajectories for care management. Apixio’s intelligent cloud-based platform can aggregate and index patient data (structured and unstructured), apply sophisticated analytics, and route key insights into clinical workflow/reporting applications designed to help ACOs achieve optimal quality and cost objectives.
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October 3, 2012
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Significantly Improve Your Medicare Advantage Reimbursement
In this webinar, Apixio describes innovative and intelligent analytics to automatically expose actionable opportunities to improve risk adjustment factor scoring by automatically extracting relevant diagnoses in clinical narrative using both text and scanned documents and comparing them against claims data to identify information gaps. The model leverages big data analytic techniques to determine where information gaps which can be addressed by coders to improve both chart audit productivity and also uncover additional opportunities for reimbursement.
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October 3, 2012
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Durham Nephrology Associates Achieves Meaningful Use after Navigating Uncharted Waters
Specialty medicine practices rarely employ a dedicated information technology resource. Durham Nephrology is no exception. The Durham practice navigated the uncharted waters of attesting to <a href="/directory/meaningful-use" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Meaningful Use</a> under <a href="/directory/health-information-technology-economic-and-clinical-health-hitech-act" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">the HITECH Act</a> of 2009 without the benefit of an IT expert or outside consultant. They implemented an <a href="/directory/electronic-health-record-ehr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EHR</a> system in 2003 and believed that an EHR was the only long-term, effective way to organize patient charts and clinical notes. Read this story to find out this resourceful team achieved their goals--and more.
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September 4, 2012
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Wireless Technology in Healthcare Transformation: Supporting Meaningful Use, Value-Based Care, and the Mobile Patient and Provider
As healthcare organizations develop strategies to comply with federal mandates and succeed in the new environment, wireless is one of the emerging technologies that can enable organizations to meet their clinical and business objectives, especially in this era of having to do more with a finite set of resources. This paper, featuring results from a Healthcare IT News online survey from June and July 2012, discusses current usage of wireless data technology in healthcare and identifies areas of demand and the potential benefits of wireless solutions and strategies.
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August 29, 2012
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Securely Manage PCs, Macs and iPads with a Single Solution
The process of managing PC, Mac, and <a href="/directory/ipad" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">iPad</a> devices at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) used to be a complicated affair. With a mix of Active Directory and Apple Remote Desktop, Ben Hanes, Senior Systems Analyst, and the entire IT team relied on two very different tools for deployment and system control, along with an in-house database that was difficult to keep accurate.
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August 28, 2012
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August 15, 2012
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HIMSS Leaders & Innovators excites C-suite execs 
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
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November 22, 2011
Mike Miliard
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Health Information Exchange: Bridging the Digital Divide
We’ve all heard the classic song Small Town by John Mellencamp, which romanticizes growing up and living in some place other than the big city. I, too, am what most would consider “small town,” and many aspects of small town life haven’t changed a lot since I left. That small-town simplicity, however, also exists in the local health care facilities.
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November 16, 2011
Chad Johnson
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Interoperability workgroup defines standard connections between EHRs and HIEs
On Nov. 8, the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, an organization of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing EHRs issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners.
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November 10, 2011
Frank Irving
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The End of the Beginning... and the Launch of i2O
When Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health information technology, addresses more than 4,700 healthcare professionals at the Allscripts Client Experience in Nashville on Monday morning, Aug. 29, he’s likely to discuss one of the most exciting developments in healthcare today – and perhaps surprisingly, it won’t be the meaningful use of electronic health records.
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August 28, 2011
Glen Tullman
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Announcing Metadata Pilots to Realize PCAST Vision
Those of you keeping a close eye on the ONC and its activities might have noticed the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) that was published on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, requesting public input on a set of proposed metadata standards recommended to ONC by the HIT Standards Committee.
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August 18, 2011
Farzad Mostashari, MD
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Health Information Exchange: Current projects inspiring future pathways
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of health information exchange (HIE)—what it will mean 10, 15 or even 20 years down the road. There is no question that providers recognize the importance of HIE, and realize in combination with EHRs that it will transform the practice of medicine.
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August 4, 2011
Larry Boland
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Alaskan Healthcare IT Lessons Learned
Alaska faces many healthcare challenges given its large area (663,268 sq mi) and population of 710,231 residents. The geographical challenge of delivering such widely distributed healthcare makes it a natural location for telemedicine.
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July 6, 2011
John Halamka
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ACO Development: Provider as Driver
The proposed CMS regulations on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) took the first step in promoting discussions about lowering costs, but how to align these costs between each healthcare stakeholder is still an issue and obstacle, leaving most of us to wonder — how will this all actually work?
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June 14, 2011
John Nackel, PhD
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Harmonizing Provider Directory Standards
Two weeks ago, I wrote about a strawman for embracing internet-based standards to support the provider directory services needed by health information exchanges.
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June 8, 2011
John Halamka
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New Apple Developments will Likely Spur Mobile Health Innovation
If you’re reading this blog, you most likely saw the pop-up/interstitial Intel ad that asks “Is Cloud Computing Right for You?” Steve Jobs apparently thinks so.
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June 7, 2011
Jennifer Dennard
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HIT Lessons Learned from Scotland
My trip to Scotland provided a remarkable opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences.
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June 1, 2011
John Halamka
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Spinning the RHIO Story
A recent publication in the Annals of Internal Medicine has gotten quite a bit of attention in Health IT related media.
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May 24, 2011
Keith W. Boone
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ONC's Doug Fridsma joins HL7 board
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced the appointment of Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), to the HL7 Board of Directors.
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May 31, 2011
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CGI Awarded US$5.7 Million Contract to Advance the CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Exchange Gateway
The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), under management of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group, Inc. (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), a one base year contract worth US$5.7 million. The contract includes four one-year options that can be executed to support FHA's CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NHIE) Gateway Solution.
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May 24, 2011
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Delta Health Alliance, Medicity work in Mississippi Delta
Medicity, the industry standard for health information exchange (HIE), announced recently its collaboration with Delta Health Alliance, one of 17 sites nationwide selected by the federal government to serve as a Beacon Community for the pioneering use of health information technology.
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May 18, 2011
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MediConnect Global Plans 100-Employee Expansion to Facilitate Rapid Growth
MediConnect Global today announced its plan to hire 100 new employees across multiple departments, including software engineers, operations support and management, medical coders, account management, administration and executive assistants. MediConnect's hiring expansion reflects the company's steep growth trajectory, which is being driven by accelerating demand from the company's rapidly expanding client base.
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May 17, 2011
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Delta Health Alliance Collaborates With Medicity to Transform Healthcare in Mississippi Delta
Medicity, the industry standard for health information exchange (HIE), announced today its collaboration with Delta Health Alliance, one of 17 sites nationwide selected by the federal government to serve as a Beacon Community for the pioneering use of health information technology. Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded Beacon grants totaling $220 million as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
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May 16, 2011
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Oregon’s health quality network to help critical access hospitals
OCHIN, (parent of O-HITEC), a non-profit provider of health information technology and services for community based health clinics serving the medically underserved, has reached an agreement with ORHQN to assist Oregon's 25 Critical Access Hospitals in reaching the federal requirement to meaningfully use an electronic health record.
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May 10, 2011
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Emdeon reports $271.5M revenue in Q1
Emdeon Inc. (NYSE: EM), a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011, as summarized below:
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May 6, 2011
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Logansport Memorial Hospital and Woodlawn Hospital Join Nation’s Largest Health Information Exchange
Logansport Memorial Hospital and Woodlawn Hospital are now part of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE). By joining dozens of hospitals, along with long term care facilities and other healthcare providers throughout the state, physicians at Logansport Memorial and Woodlawn hospitals will be able to better serve patients by securely accessing necessary information to make decisions critical to patient care.
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May 3, 2011
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StateNet Workgroups Develop Guiding Principles for HIEs, RECs
CHIME StateNet is releasing guiding principles that it has developed as foundational operating guidelines for regional extension centers (RECs) and health information exchanges (HIEs).
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February 21, 2011
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Study: Practices and Hospitals Must Act Now to Unleash the Full Benefits of Interoperability and Accountable Care
New research from HIMSS Analytics and NextGen Healthcare supports use of Health Information Exchanges and early involvement in ACOs as critical to transforming healthcare delivery
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February 21, 2011
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Just Associates Launches Duplicate Patient Record Workflow Software
Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in patient data integrity solutions for the health information management (HIM), health informatics and health information technology (HIT) markets, today unveiled IDMaster, an innovative software solution designed to optimize workflow when reviewing and validating potential duplicate patient records.
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September 28, 2010
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Community hospital of Monterey peninsula selects RelayHealth for HIE
RelayHealth, a provider of healthcare connectivity services has announced that Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) in California has selected RelayHealth’s health information exchange (HIE) connectivity solution to help improve the quality of care and safety for its patients, create closer alignment with its physicians, and address the governance issues that arise in the process of connecting healthcare communities.
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August 24, 2010
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