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Health Level Seven (HL7), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association agreed last week to collaborate on portability standards for PHRs. Working together Read more...

SureScripts this week announced it would be working with the State Alliance for eHealth to research methods for improving medication management. The new program will look at ways to improve "safety, Read more...

> What if doctors inadvertently break the laws of another state when sharing EMR data across state lines? The State Alliance for e-Health thinks it can solve the problem. Article

> The widely-acclaimed Indiana Health Information Exchange continues to attract new members, with its list of participating hospitals now at 25. Article

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It's dueling data stores, everyone. This week, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and health industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans have announced that they're creating their own personal health record (PHR) model. This new PHR would be transferable from one insurance company to another. The effort, which should go live in 2008, will presumably compete with the giant personal health record effort being launched by a handful of mega-employers like Wal-Mart Stores and …

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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association last week unveiled what it calls the largest health care information database in the world.  The national association has gathered claims information from 20 Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plans across the country, including Blue Shield of Northeastern New York in Latham, to create Blue …

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