Health Information Exchange

Connecticut Launches Long-Awaited Health Information Exchange

by Christopher Jason

Following several fruitless attempts over the past decade and a half, Connecticut has launched its statewide health information exchange to streamline patient data exchange across the state. After...

Most Health Information Exchanges in Strong Position for TEFCA

by Christopher Jason

Most state and local health information exchanges (HIEs) are supporting a vast number of services and are developing connections to each other and national networks in preparation for the Trusted...

Best Practices for Integrating SDOH Data into the EHR

by Christopher Jason

Identifying and implementing social determinants of health (SDOH) data into the EHR is critical to finding answers to a state’s most significant issues.  Once identified, SDOH data helps...

National Patient Identifier Coalition Launches Strategic Framework

by Christopher Jason

Patient ID Now, a national patient identifier coalition of over 40 healthcare organizations, has called on the federal government to collaborate with the private sector and public health organizations...

How Regenstrief Built an Emergency EHR System During COVID-19

by Christopher Jason

To aid Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (IEMS) with an influx of COVID-19 patients, researchers from Regenstrief Institute utilized a global open-source EHR, OpenMRS, to create an emergency EHR...

ONC Leader Tripathi Offers Tips for Interoperability Rule Success

by Christopher Jason

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is gearing up to help organizations succeed with all phases of the interoperability rule, focused mainly on moving a range of health IT levers in...

CT Health Information Exchange Adds First Integrated Delivery System

by Christopher Jason

CTHealthLink (CTHL), a physician-led health information exchange (HIE) established in partnership with the Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS), added its first integrated delivery system to its...

Strengthening Patient Care as a Rural Health Information Exchange

by Christopher Jason

It’s hard for providers in remote locations to deliver high-quality and coordinated patient care without a rural health information exchange (HIE). HIEs are crucial for connecting communities...

Pew Urges ONC to Expand USCDI to Boost Patient Data Exchange

by Christopher Jason

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) should expand the data required in the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) to improve public health...

Local Nonprofit HIE Ends Battle Against Oklahoma Statewide HIE

by Christopher Jason

MyHealth Access Network, a Tulsa-based nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), has withdrawn its Oklahoma State Health Information Network and Exchange (OKSHINE) vendor protest after a prolonged...

CT to Implement Statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

by Christopher Jason

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection’s Drug Control Division announced a statewide EHR integration of its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) after receiving $1.3 million in...

NY Health Information Exchange Strives to Mitigate Childhood Obesity

by Christopher Jason

Rochester RHIO, a New York-based regional health information exchange (HIE), and its local partners developed a childhood obesity tool to boost public health and aid communities where childhood obesity...

Tripathi: ONC Working to Boost Interoperability, COVID-19 Response

by Christopher Jason

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will maintain its focus on mitigating COVID-19 through health IT while also prioritizing interoperability, National Coordinator for Health IT,...

NYeC to Develop Social Determinants of Health Initiative

by Christopher Jason

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and 2-1-1 New York, Inc. (2-1-1 NY), an affiliate of United Way of New York State, will work to promote patient data exchange through social determinants of...

Pew Calls for Electronic Case Reporting for Potential Pandemics

by Christopher Jason

Pew Charitable Trusts, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recommended the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

Stages of Health Information Exchange Implementation

by Christopher Jason

The demand for health information exchange (HIE) across established institutional barriers is certain. Healthcare professionals across all sectors display a sense of passion for participating in patient data exchange to improve patient...

Major CA FQHC Connects to Nonprofit Health Information Exchange

by Christopher Jason

Arroyo Vista Family Health Center, a Los Angeles-based federally qualified health center (FQHC), has connected to the Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) nonprofit health information...

How Health Information Exchange Facilitated COVID-19 Follow-Up

by Christopher Jason

A local health information exchange (HIE) helped Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians identify COVID-19 patients diagnosed in the community and facilitate ambulatory COVID-19 symptom follow-up, according...

How HIEs Can Prepare Clients for the ONC Interoperability Rule

by Christopher Jason

This time last year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) dropped the interoperability rule as a part of the 21st Century Cures Act, which primarily...