Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2025

E-prescribing vendor Surescripts subsidiary Surescripts Health Information Network is the latest designated QHIN , bringing the total number of approved QHINs to nine. Studies Roughly 80% of nursing leaders are piloting new care models , according to a Wolters Kluwer Health survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2025

Electronic medical records contain a treasure trove of personal information. Patients, providers, public health agencies, payers, and others must be able to implicitly trust that health information networks will ensure their information is protected and used appropriately.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2025

Shounak Lahiri, Global Solutions, SVP at Health Catalyst Healthcare data interoperability remains a challenge despite improvements in health information exchange standards. Interoperability starts with aggregating patient data from EHRs, insurers, clinical registries, and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2025

Steve Heard, Chief Innovation Officer at J2 Interactive , presents a strategy in this interview for dealing with new forms of data known as Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and how traditional HIEs can evolve to help organizations utilize this data. The SDoH data is being standardized thanks to the Gravity project at HL7.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

By Gary Larson, executive vice president and general manager of HIE solutions, eHealth Technologies. The Strategic Health Information Collaborative (SHIEC) Annual Conference took place again, this time as a five-week virtual event from August 17 […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For the 43rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Henry Vynalek, Director of HIE & IT Operations at Ohio Health Information Partnership. We look at what the IT stack looks like for an HIE. How real are efforts to address health equity? How is workforce impacting you?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data to further increase their value. Higher quality data means they can help healthcare organizations understand their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

For nearly a decade, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been looking for their long-term sustainable business model. This is part of the journey toward the future state of the HIE, which will be a ubiquitous healthcare utility that makes data available to all stakeholders across the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

In response to this tweet by Kristen Valdes during the SHIEC 2021 conference happening this week in Arizona, Brendan Keeler offered this really important look into healthcare data exchange and HIEs.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that five cooperative agreements to health information exchange organizations (HIEs) to help support state and local public health agencies in their efforts to respond to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. You’ll collaborate closely with others on the various technologies of our health information exchange platform to implement software solutions. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 16, 2020

By Dr. Chris Hobson, chief medical officer, Orion Health. Health information exchanges (HIEs) represent a key piece of health information technology and are ideal tools to assist providers and managers in flattening the COVID-19 case […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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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Digital Health Global

MAY 24, 2023

Partnership supports patient matching across more than 28 million lives in Arizona and Colorado MCLEAN, Va., & PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, and Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. TEFCA like health information networks (HINs) bring non-HIPAA entities (no direct/indirect healthcare service operations) but at a large scale and with broader coverage.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The proposed Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) certainly presents opportunities and change for HIE organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2020

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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 20, 2020

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) unveiled a joint health information exchange to enable interoperable health information sharing between VA, DOD and private sector providers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 13, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and accelerate innovative uses of electronic health information via health information exchanges (HIEs) to support state and local […].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 5, 2021

IHE Profiles for Health Information Exchange By Keith Boone He is the author, but he gives credit for pulling from many sources including my blog. It goes a bit deeper than the IHE HIE Whitepaper. It is called a book, but is available for free download in multiple formats.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As Hurricane Michael descended on the Florida panhandle Wednesday morning, HIEs in surrounding states were preparing to activate an emergency data sharing infrastructure to ensure clinicians have updated medical information on displaced patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. Resources for All States. For instance: .

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2021

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. See the HIE-Whitepaper - section 2.7 These exchanges have been built up over the past ten or so years. They have security models, privacy models, patient identification models, record location models, and data format models.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 23, 2023

I already have one proposal for the transition from the current Federated Health Information Exchange to supporting FHIR, that is based on a transition from CDA to FHIR-Documents. In that proposal, I make it clear that this is NOT an end-state, but rather a method to more smoothly transition.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Holon Solutions, a health tech company focused on easing administrative burdens, has joined forces with a Nevada health information exchange (HIE) to transform information sharing in the state. |

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers. The Health Information Exchange model presented is an Infrastructure, it is not constraining the content.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. Michael Gagnon, Executive Director at HealtHIE Nevada – I see HIEs really evolving to be health data utilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

" New Zealand-based Orion Health, which also offers a clinical and medication management portal and health intelligence on its unified health information exchange platform, leverages existing technology, like electronic health records, and integrates with patient portals and other systems.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 11, 2023

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Altera Digital Health (formerly the Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment) has won a competitive tender to deliver the Victorian Department of Health’s state-wide Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 15, 2019

Two of the largest health information exchanges in the country, Missouri Health Connection and the Kansas Health Information Network, have signed an agreement that will enable providers to have access to 20 million patients' health records in Kansas, Missouri and the Midwest.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Webinar recording is available that covers the Document Sharing Health Information Exchange (HIE) on FHIR.

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