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Florida Blue, the Sunshine State's largest insurer, has launched a project with data exchange platform Availity and ambulatory electronic health record vendor Greenway that will enable physicians to exchange clinical summaries with the health plan through their EHRs.

Axial Exchange, a developer of patient engagement technologies, unveiled this week its Patient Engagement Index, which ranks U.S. hospitals based on how involved their patient communities are with their own care.

The Florida Health Information Exchange has put in place a plan for how it will pay for its operations once federal grants to fund state HIEs expire in September. Its strategies include cost management, technology, governance and ongoing stakeholder engagement, and keeping an eye out for new revenue opportunities.

CHIME Board Chairman George T. Hickman, CIO at Albany Medical Center, launched the 2013 CIO Forum on Sunday on a celebratory note, as he also heralded a time for change and for growth for the 1,400-member organization.

As healthcare IT continues to impact the delivery of patient care, academic institutions are improving their HIT degree programs. Nowhere is this trend more evident than on University Row at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Convention & Exhibition.

A new report released Tuesday recognizes the nation's best hospitals for 2013 in addition to top cities in the United States for hospital care based on in-hospital mortality rates. Dayton, Ohio; Phoenix; and Milwaukee have come out on top, all seeing mortality rates less than 5 percent.

Already this year, some 13 states, plus the District of Columbia, have introduced legislation that would further expand the usage and reimbursement of telemedicine services.

Primary Partners, a Florida-based organization of some 60 healthcare providers that participates in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Medicare Shared Savings Program, has announced a partnership with AMC Health, a New York-based provider of telemedicine services. The agreement enables AMC to provide telemonitoring services for Primary Partners patients with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

JDL Technologies has been approved as a Qualified Information Technology Vendor by the University of Central Florida Regional Extension Center (UCF REC) for physicians, clinicians, medical practices and other healthcare providers throughout the region.