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NewsHealthcare giants to show feasibility of cross-country data exchange
Five large integrated delivery systems--all of them pioneers of electronic health records--have formed a consortium to demonstrate the feasibility of cross-country health information exchange. The Read more...
Social Security budgets $24M to exchange health data with hospitals, HIEs
The Social Security Administration has set aside $24 million to expand a program under which it contracts with hospitals and health information exchanges willing to electronically share electronic Read more...
HHS to sponsor open source 'code-a-thon' for NHIN
Later this month, HHS plans to sponsor a "code-a-thon"--a gathering for open-source programmers--focused on finding ways to improve the CONNECT gateway software used to access the Nationwide Health Read more...
Trend: Government health IT push comes at bad time for some
In all fairness, there's probably never a great time to ask hospitals to spend giant sums on new IT investments. But this is probably an especially bad time, even if you come promising subsidies, Read more...
National Health Information Network begins test data exchange
Last week, a handful of participants began the first practical data exchange of the national health information network (NHIN), a move that gains significance in the wake of newly-passed $20 billion Read more...
MGMA calls for standardized patient IDs; Kentucky plans 'national lab' for HIT;
> The Medical Group Management Association is calling for the use of standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010, arguing that the cards can strip $1 billion in cost from the Read more...
NHIN going live early next year for SSA
Brace yourselves, people: the Nationwide Health Information Network will be working to earn its pay starting early next year. The first real-world test won't be of direct clinical impact like the Read more...
Aetna offers customers access to Microsoft HealthVault
Aetna has decided to become the first health plan to offer its members access to Microsoft's personal health record technology. It will roll out Microsoft's HealthVault in November, offering access Read more...
New HIE to span 12 European countries
Here at FierceHealthIT, we usually report on projects taking place in the United States, but this one was so large, we couldn't resist giving you an update. With support from the European Commission, Read more...
NY proposes rules for standardizing data sharing consent
A New York-based group has issued a set of recommendations this week that take on what may be one of the biggest problems RHIOs face--setting uniform standards for getting consent for sharing Read more...
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