HealthInfoNet, Maine’s statewide health information exchange, is using the $198,659 grant it recently received from Maine Health Access Foundation to link the HIE with Maine Health Data Organization’s all-payer claims database to better manage patient populations.
Maine's statewide health information exchange, HealthInfoNet, has received a $198,659 grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) to link the HIE with Maine's all-payer claims database. The link will help Maine's medical community improve care quality and drive down costs, officials say.
Time Warner Cable Business Class has commenced a trial of healthcare services in Maine, offering providers the ability to communicate and transact with each other and patients over a secure community intranet that meets federal privacy and security standards.
St. Joseph Healthcare is the most recent Bangor area health facility to connect to Maine’s health information exchange (HIE), operated by HealthInfoNet. The secure system links information from separate healthcare sites to create a single electronic patient health record. This record is easily accessible to the doctors and nurses caring for patients. Having access to this system provides caregivers with the information they need to make the best decisions possible on behalf of their patients.
Earlier this spring, Maine State Sen. Roger Katz (R-Augusta), introduced a bill to the Legislature's Committee on Health and Human Services titled “An Act To Ensure Patient Privacy and Control with Regard to Health Information Exchanges.”
HealthInfoNet, the nonprofit organization managing the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the State of Maine, announced Monday that it will partner with Health Language, Inc. (HLI) as it transitions from a two-year demonstration project to a full statewide HIE implementation.
Maine has won approval from the federal government for the full use of its grant of nearly $6.6 million to expand and coordinate health information technology throughout the state, Gov. John E. Baldacci announced on Wednesday.
Maine has launched what officials are calling the largest statewide health information exchange in the nation that uses clinical data. And the Obama administration’s healthcare IT chief says it could be a model for the rest of the country even as Connecticut, New York, Maryland Massachusetts are launching launch their own HIE initiatives this summer.
President Obama's healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal, MD, was on hand Friday as Maine announced it will go live this summer with the country's largest statewide health information exchange.
Devore Culver, executive director of Maine-based HealthInfoNet, describes the objectives, challenges and benefits of statewide health information exchange.
AUGUSTA, ME - With $4 million in hand, Maine healthcare leaders began this month to build a statewide health information exchange, making Maine among the first in the nation to create a statewid...
With $4 million in hand, Maine healthcare leaders announced today they would begin to build a statewide health information exchange Feb. 1, making Maine among the first in the nation to build a statew...
