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South Dakota DOH Taps Health IT for Community Information Exchange

September 8, 2023 - South Dakota's Department of Health (DOH) has awarded a contract to health IT vendor findhelp to build a statewide community information exchange (CIE). The platform will connect South Dakotans in need of social care services with community providers to drive health outcomes among underserved populations. The CIE platform will...


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Civitas Releases Framework for Health Data Utility (HDU) Adoption

by Hannah Nelson

Civitas Networks for Health, an organization that aims to support interoperability through widespread collaboration, has released a Health Data Utility (HDU) Framework developed in partnership with the...

Can State Policy Levers Catalyze Health Information Exchange Use?

by Sarai Rodriguez

As states increasingly prioritize improved healthcare quality, the promotion of health information exchange (HIE) has become a key focus. However, the key to increasing HIE use may ultimately rely on...

ONC Mulls Health Information Exchange Data for Patient-Centered Research

by Sarai Rodriguez

ONC has announced a new project to leverage health information exchange (HIE) data to support COVID-19 focused patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) by implementing new data standards and...

Health Data Exchange Barriers Impede Widespread Interoperability

by Sarai Rodriguez

Widespread interoperability among office-based physicians is lacking due to a number of health data exchange barriers, according to a recent ONC Data Brief. The report used 2019 CDC National...

New England HIE Collaboration Enables Regional Interoperability

by Sarai Rodriguez

HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maine, joined an HIE collaboration with The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) and VITL (Vermont), which is set to boost regional...

How Different HIE Methods Impact Provider Use of Health Information

by Sarai Rodriguez

Healthcare organizations have several options in how they facilitate data exchange. However, not all health information exchange (HIE) methods increase the availability and provider use of health...

eHealth Exchange Reaches 1 Billion HIE Transactions Per Month

by Hannah Nelson

eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange (HIE), announced that the eHealth Exchange Hub platform surpassed one billion requests processed for the first month ever in May 2022. eHealth...

Montana Governor Announces $20M Investment in State HIE

by Hannah Nelson

Governor Greg Gianforte has announced a $20 million investment in Montana’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC). BSCC is a platform that allows...

How Health Information Exchanges Boost Value-Based Care

by Hannah Nelson

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-situated to help healthcare organizations achieve the triple aim of value-based care—improving population health management strategies, providing better care for individuals, and reducing...

California Set to Launch Statewide Health Information Exchange

by Sarai Rodriguez

California is preparing to launch its long-awaited statewide health information exchange (HIE) to improve patient data sharing between payers and healthcare providers throughout the state. This recent...

Health Information Exchanges May Grow Digital Divide in Referrals

by Sarai Rodriguez

By participating in health information exchanges (HIEs), physicians can increase their rate of referrals from and to other members by 44 percent to 46 percent. However, researchers suggest these...

AZ HIE Integrates Advance Directives to Inform Clinical Decision Making

by Hannah Nelson

Health Current, Arizona's statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced that it will integrate advance directives to provide seamless access to patients’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health Information Exchanges Form Consortium for Interoperability

by Christopher Jason

Six major health information exchanges (HIEs) have joined forces to form the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), to enhance individual and population health through patient data...