Health Information Exchange

DirectTrust to Enhance Data Exchange Directory Through AWS Initiative

by Hannah Nelson

DirectTrust has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative to enhance the DirectTrust Directory for health data exchange. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare...

Regenstrief Releases LOINC Updates to Support Health Data Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

Regenstrief Institute has issued its semi-annual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which contains 608 new concepts to support health data exchange across the care...

Maryland HIE Expands Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project

by Hannah Nelson

CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), has expanded its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project to all interested providers and Managed Care Organizations...

ONC, CMS Partner on Proposed Rules for HIE Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Two new proposed rules from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to advance health information exchange (HIE) interoperability and streamline prior authorization processes. The...

ONC Toolkit Outlines Foundational Elements of SDOH Information Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Information Exchange Toolkit to support communities working toward achieving health equity through SDOH data sharing. The national SDOH data...

How An HIE Approaches Continuous Patient Data Quality Improvement

by Hannah Nelson

The cornerstone of a health information exchange (HIE) is continuous patient data quality improvement, according to Pam Matthews, chief executive officer and executive director of East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN). "While...

1,400 Healthcare Orgs Join CalHHS Data Exchange Framework

by Hannah Nelson

Over 1,400 organizations have joined the California Health and Human Services (CalHHS) Data Exchange Framework (DxF), the first-ever statewide data sharing agreement of its kind in California. The...

HealtheLINK HIE Reports Uptick in Health Data Exchange in 2022

by Hannah Nelson

HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, worked on a total of 83 different projects focused on improving health data exchange in 2022 alone, according to the...

PCP Use of Community HIE Cuts Likelihood of Hospital Reutilization

by Hannah Nelson

Increased primary care physician (PCP) use of community HIE may dramatically improve patient outcomes, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers used Paso del Norte...

State, Federal Healthcare Datasets Exclude Prison Hospital Data  

by Hannah Nelson

Federal healthcare datasets exclude prison hospital data, limiting carceral health research, according to a study published in Health Affairs. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s...

Regenstrief Institute Framework Addresses Patient Matching Accuracy

by Sarai Rodriguez

Regenstrief Institute researchers recently announced the launch of an eight-point framework that aims to improve patient matching accuracy through algorithm evaluations. Connecting patent records...

Physicians in ACOs More Likely to Use HIE to Share Patient Data

by Hannah Nelson

Physicians in emerging care models, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), were significantly more likely to use health information exchange (HIE) to share patient data than physicians in...

ONC Releases 2023 Interoperability Standards Advisory Reference Edition

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released the 2023 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition, which reflects more than 150 comments received by ONC during a 60-day public comment period. The ISA is...

Care Org Taps eClinicalWorks EHR Implementation for Interoperaiblity

by Hannah Nelson

LifeArts Integrated Health Center, PC/LifeArts Medical, LLC in Nebraska recently completed an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation to improve interoperability and drive operational efficiencies. The...

California HIE Earns NCQA Validated Data Stream Designation for Third Year

by Hannah Nelson

Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), has earned the Validated Data Stream designation in the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Data...

EHNAC Announces Finalized 2023 Health IT Accreditation Criteria

by Hannah Nelson

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit health IT standards development organization, has released new versions of program criteria for its 19 accreditation...