HIEs news from FierceHealthIT
NewsGovernment's push to unleash health data 'transformative'
Since 2008, HealthCamp's worldwide gatherings have provided a unique venue for people to discuss issues and challenges facing the healthcare industry, as well as how to best to resolve those issues. Read more...
ACOs: A sustainable business model for HIEs?
Few regional and state health information exchanges have found a sustainable business model. John Tempesco, chief marketing officer at ICA, a Nashville-based HIE vendor, recently told attendees at a Read more...
ONC pushing HIEs to test metadata standards
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing out metadata standards that state health information exchanges will use for patient information queries and personal health information Read more...
KLAS: 'Private' HIEs leaving 'public' HIEs in the dust
KLAS, the Orem, Utah-based research firm that ranks everything under the sun, has just released its latest findings on health information exchanges (HIEs). It found that the number of operational Read more...
Latest HIE toolkit is primer for building information exchanges
The 10-year-old eHealth Initiative has released Phase II of its 2011 HIE Toolkit. Like the first two iterations of the toolkit, which were issued in 2006 and 2008, the latest version incorporates Read more...
Healthcare 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...
Orion, Health Language Inc. partner in new HIE approach
Orion Health, a developer of health information exchanges, and Health Language Inc., which specializes in mapping the myriad medical terms for the same concepts to a single terminology, have joined Read more...
Colorado HIE efforts spotlight privacy issues
A recent Denver Post article about the Colorado health information exchange (HIE) reveals the disconnect between the nationwide effort to connect health records online to improve patient care and Read more...
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...
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