Health Information Exchange (HIE) news from FierceHealthIT
NewsStates making progress toward HIEs
In its latest step toward toward a state-wide health information exchange (HIE), the Iowa Department of Health will team with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a division of Norwalk, Conn.-based Read more...
Volume of HIT changes expected to shape 2011
The sheer volume of changes in health IT confronting CIOs is a trend all unto itself in 2011--putting the CIOs "squarely in the crucible," according to a collaborative white paper on the top 11 Read more...
Blumenthal: Health IT is key to health reform
It's been a busy year in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and for health IT in general. "It's been a whirlwind of activity. Many of you have spent many Read more...
White House panel wants common language for HIE
A White House advisory commission is calling on CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to adopt a "universal exchange language" to help simplify and Read more...
Is Aetna, Medicity deal the beginning of the end for independent HIE vendors?
While Aetna's $500 million acquisition of health information exchange vendor Medicity this week appears to be a direct reaction to UnitedHealth Group's deal for Axolotl earlier this year, the move is Read more...
Renamed Direct Project to demonstrate email-like secure messaging
NHIN Direct, we hardly knew thee. The health information exchange protocol to help small physician practices participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network and achieve a key "meaningful Read more...
Health IT still far from its potential
A couple of weeks ago, we referenced both the 1991 Institute of Medicine report, "The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care" and President George W. Bush's 2004 call Read more...
Providers concerned about quality reporting in 'meaningful use'
The federal stimulus money for "meaningful use" of EHRs was supposed to be exactly that--a stimulus--to encourage health IT adoption and quality improvement. If some new survey numbers are to Read more...
AHRQ survey: Practices continue to struggle with HIE
If the early results of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality survey are a reliable indicator, physician practices are continuing to struggle with health information exchange. In the Read more...
'Tiger team' calls for digital authentication in provider-to-provider HIE
The privacy and security "tiger team" set up to resolve pressing issues for the Health IT Policy Committee is calling for standard authentication policies for direct electronic exchange of EHRs and Read more...
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