Health Information Exchange

HHS Awards Funding to Boost Patient Data Exchange in NY

by Christopher Jason

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded funding to two regional health information exchanges in New York, Bronx RHIO and HEALTHeLINK, to enhance patient data exchange between HIEs...

Using Health Information Exchange Data Boosts Quality Reporting

by Christopher Jason

Integrating health information exchange (HIE) data with EHR data provides a more accurate and complete view of quality reporting than patient data from one hospital source, according to a study...

How Regenstrief Institute Has Enhanced COVID-19 Reporting in Indiana

by Christopher Jason

COVID-19 has exposed the cracks in healthcare systems across the country. In Indiana, Regenstrief Institute and its partners had to make some critical patient data exchange adaptations and...

Half of Providers Don’t Utilize Health Information Exchange

by Christopher Jason

Health information exchange (HIE) is utilized in less than half of referrals, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), and factors like EHR...

HHS Awards HIE Funding to Boost Patient Data Exchange in Texas

by Christopher Jason

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded funding to the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) and HASA, a regional health information exchange (HIE) in Texas, to improve patient...

Team-Based Approach Key to Boost EHR Public Health Reporting

by Christopher Jason

Public health reporting challenges during COVID-19 are a direct result of EHR inefficiencies. Although health IT specialists cannot re-invent the EHR at this time, these challenges could be mitigated...

EHR Interoperability Continues to Climb in Acute Care Hospitals

by Christopher Jason

EHR interoperability among acute care hospitals increased from 2018 to 2019, according to the 2019 American Hospital Association IT Supplement published by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)...

VA Health Information Exchange Implementation Barriers

by Christopher Jason

Health IT leaders at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said the complex interrelationship correlation between local and national VA entities is a more significant technical obstacle than the...

CA Provider Coalition to Support a State Health Information Exchange

by Christopher Jason

Connecting for Better Health, a group of California’s most influential healthcare organizations and stakeholders, announced they launched a coalition to support a California statewide health...

EHR Data is as Effective as COVID-19 Contact Tracing Methods

by Christopher Jason

Extracting household patient EHR data proved to be as effective at tracking transmission as COVID-19 contact tracing, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.   Because...

eHealth Exchange Promotes Patient Data Exchange Across Health Orgs

by Christopher Jason

eHealth Exchange customers said the health information exchange (HIE) enables patient data exchange across state and regional HIEs and public health agencies, according to a recent KLAS First Look...

Regenstrief to Implement COVID-19 Dataset Codes with ONC Funds

by Christopher Jason

Regenstrief Institute announced it would develop and add COVID-19 standardized codes to the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) dataset to enhance mapping services and upgrade...

How a Rural HIE Boosted its Public Health Reporting, Data Exchange

by Christopher Jason

The healthcare industry was flipped upside down during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient data exchange and public health reporting were issues before the pandemic, and these two areas of...

AZ Health Information Exchange to Integrate SDOH Data Tool

by Christopher Jason

Health Current, Arizona’s statewide health information exchange, announced it is implementing a closed loop referral platform for its users to gain a greater understanding of social determinants...

Local Nonprofit HIE Appeals Oklahoma Statewide HIE Denial

by Christopher Jason

MyHealth Access Network, a Tulsa-based nonprofit health information exchange, is appealing the Oklahoma Purchasing Director’s decision that the Oklahoma State Health Information Exchange...

ONC Adds 3 Key Updates to Interoperability Standards Advisory

by Christopher Jason

Following stakeholder feedback, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology made several key updates to the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA), highlighted by...

Florida Launches PULSE Platform for Emergency Patient Data Exchange

by Christopher Jason

The State of Florida has launched the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE) platform to boost patient data exchange during statewide public health emergencies and natural...

Top Healthcare Orgs Launch Information Blocking Resource Center

by Christopher Jason

Eight top healthcare organizations have joined forces to launch the Information Blocking Resource Center to prepare and educate stakeholders for the upcoming information blocking compliance dates as a...

NY HIE Hits Record Number of EHR Alerts, Patient Data Lookups

by Christopher Jason

Patient data lookups by county and state health departments doubled and EHR alerts sky-rocketed in Western New York during COVID-19, according to a HEALTHeLINK 2020 report. Since March, the HIE sent...

DirectTrust Streamlines 2B Direct Secure Messages Since 2014

by Christopher Jason

DirectTrust has announced it has surpassed 2 billion direct secure messages since it began tracking the statistic in 2014. This milestone was fueled by a record-breaking 265 million patient data...