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Unified Data: The Key to HIE Success

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Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

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As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

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LANES, the Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services , is a non-profit, community-based organization that operates a health information exchange that enables LA County provider participants to access and collaboratively share medical records of local patients. “The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

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From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. THE LARGER TREND.

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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

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ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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New York State HIE Is Lowering Healthcare Costs By As Much As $200 Million

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A New York HIE has concluded that it’s having the impact supporters of data sharing have always hoped for – generating a substantial level of healthcare savings.

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HIE Launches New COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform

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The following is an interview with Jaime Bland, CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII). Tell us about the new COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform that NEHII launched. What does it accomplish and how does it work? NEHII partnered with KPI Ninja to develop the COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform.

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