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Panel told of difficulties with lab results exchange
A task force of the federal Health IT Policy Committee heard testimony that electronic exchange of laboratory results could be a significant barrier to wide implementation of electronic health... 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...
Study: Number of HIEs going online up about 40 percent since 2008
Health information exchanges seemed to be floundering for a while, but now they're picking up momentum, if a new survey is any indication. The number of HIEs that report being operational and... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Indiana brags about HIT accomplishments
The state of Indiana has launched a new effort promoting its ventures into health IT. Officials say that their state boasts one of the strongest health IT infrastructures in the U.S, including five... Read more...
DC Medicaid agency plans HIE
Maybe it takes a kick in the pants from government to get health information exchanges moving. In this case, the aforementioned kick is coming from the Department of Health Care Finance, the District... Read more...
Groups to create best practices for health information exchanges
Now this seems to make sense, given the erratic way in which health information networks are emerging state-to-state and region-to-region: A pair of organizations have come together to create... Read more...
Connecting hospitals and physicians
Connecting hospitals with physicians is a big, costly problem no matter how you slice it. Some vendors may offer secure connections with physicians, but their products aren't cheap and implementation... Read more...
$18.9M for safety-net providers to tap EMRs, IT
Large multi-site community health centers and safety-net providers offer care for the nation's uninsured, underinsured and underserved populations. And now 25 of these facilities across 16 states... Read more...
Competitive fears slow growth of HIEs
While health information exchanges can have benefits for providers, many are uncomfortable sharing such data, as they fear that they could lose their competitive advantage. For that reason, many HIEs... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals, health systems building their own networks
For years now, hospitals have struggled to create health information exchanges that not only served some broad community purpose, but also hooked up their physicians with their central systems.... Read more...
