SuccessEHS became the first ambulatory electronic health record vendor to demonstrate a successful connection with South Carolina’s Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) during the recent 2012 South Carolina Health Information Exchange & Health Information Technology Summit. The demonstration showcased the capability of the SuccessEHS solution to send information to and receive data through the statewide health [...]
SuccessEHS First EHR Vendor to Connect to South Carolina Health Information Exchange
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New IDC Health Insights Report Reveals Best Practices for Establishing Sustainable Health Information Exchange
April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
IDC Health Insights today announced the availability of a new report, Best Practices: Establishing Sustainable Health Information Exchange (Document # HI233879), to educate healthcare organizations on best practices for establishing enterprise or community health information exchanges (HIOs). While many HIOs have attempted to become sustainable, financially viable entities, only some have succeeded. The new report provides a [...]
Health Information Exchange Formation Guide Named HIMSS Book of the Year
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society has named The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide its 2011 Book of the Year. The book and its co-authors, well-known health information consultants Laura Kolkman, RN, MS, FHIMSS and Bob Brown of Mosaica Partners, were honored on Feb. 23 at the HIMSS Awards Banquet, part of the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference [...]
Inland Empire HIE Selects Orion Health For Community-Wide Health Information Exchange
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Orion Health has announced that Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE), a self-funded collaborative of Riverside and San Bernardino County hospitals, medical centers, physician practices, health plans, public health organizations and other healthcare providers, will use Orion Health HIE to access and share patient health records and improve care coordination for more than 4.1 million people living [...]
Orion Health Updates HIE Offerings to Enhance Care Coordination and Improve Clinical Data Sharing Within and Between Facilities
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Orion Health used the week of HIMSS12 to announce the availability of some new functionality in the latest version of the Orion Health HIE. Orion Health HIE, the technology backbone for enterprise and community-wide clinical data sharing, is used by hospitals, health systems and public HIEs across the U.S. Enhancements to Orion Health HIE improve [...]
Trenton Health Team Selects Covisint as its Health Information Exchange Provider
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Covisint has announced that Trenton Health Team (THT) has selected Covisint as its Health Information Exchange. Covisint will enable THT to provide integrated care coordination for its most vulnerable residents, as well as help THT improve and track health quality outcomes. Challenges facing some urban health systems include coping with poverty, homelessness, lack of integrated [...]
Medicity Reports HIE Market Accelerated in 2011 As Organizations Prepare for Payment Reform and ACO Models
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Medicity reports it saw acceleration in the number of health information exchanges being formed in the second half of 2011, supporting predictions recently voiced by Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, who said that health information exchange would turn a corner and take off in 2012. Medicity signed a record number of [...]
Misys Open Source Solutions Announces The Misys Connect HIE-in-a-Box
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Misys Open Source Solutions has announced today they have created the first fully functional HIE that is designed to drop into a healthcare community and begin the secure exchange of patient medical summaries and other discrete data in a matter of days, using their first-of-a-kind — HIE-in-a-Box™ approach. Targeted users for the new HIE-in-a-Box solution [...]
Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology Selects OptumInsight for Statewide HIE Services
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT) today announced that OptumInsight’s health information exchange technology has been selected to build the infrastructure for the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE), Arkansas’s statewide health information exchange. Ray Scott, who was appointed by Governor Mike Beebe to serve as the state coordinator for health information [...]
Misys Open Source Solutions Demonstrates Leadership at IHE North America Connectathon 2012 for the Fourth Year
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys plc, the world’s first fully open source, standards based health information exchange solutions provider, has succeeded in passing the stringent IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) testing protocols at the Chicago Connectathon. This extends MOSS success in passing all the IHE tests for the last 4 years. [...]
