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

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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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 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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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

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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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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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange.

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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

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

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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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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 IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Rather, it would support continuity and streamline operations.

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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 Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Ford, VP of Health Information Technology at California Medical Association (CMA). With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be. Then, we take a look at the future of health IT to talk about what we’re most excited about.

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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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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 IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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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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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

AUGUST 4, 2021

Two health information exchange (HIE) leaders in Colorado and Arizona form Contexture, a new regional organization, to better deliver existing HIE services while innovating for future industry growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

Then we shift into the roles healthcare organizations and patients/parents have in keeping information private. Next Pageler offers tips/guidance on how we can all keep our health information private. Then we take a look at various health apps to discuss their role in information privacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

. “Human API and LexisNexis Risk Solutions can create a more seamless method of delivering sensitive health records while maintaining the industry’s data privacy standards and helping the healthcare and insurance communities improve and protect people’s lives.”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 3, 2020

An update to the HIE-Whitepaper , bringing in the newly build FHIR based profiles. Note: This revision of the HIE white paper, published as HTML, has been updated to include advancements in Document Sharing Health Information Exchange support, including the use of FHIR® infrastructure, and support for consuming FHIR® Resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To better address identity management at SCHIO, Dan Chavez, Executive Director of SCHIO (Santa Cruz Health Information Organization), turned to Verato. I also asked Chavez how expanding HIE data to include things like SDoH impacted identity management and whether it made it more challenging.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I think it is important to celebrate what we have today in Health Information Exchanges. However there is a bright future for the Health Information Exchange too. Manual HIE Today we have Health Information Exchanges that enable Providers to send Directed Secure E-Mail messages to other Providers.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee. Health Care Law and Consulting. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 13, 2019

Chris Hobson, chief medical officer, Orion Health. Health information exchanges (HIE) help care teams provide more informed patient care by supplying a complete longitudinal healthcare history of the patient to healthcare professionals, as well as enabling high quality reporting and analytics on the data.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee.

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