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HIE workgroup offers exchange advancement suggestions

 Anthony Brino April 17, 2013
Looking at gaps across the healthcare spectrum that HIE still needs to fill, the ONC Information Exchange Workgroup is suggesting HHS, CMS and ONC look at the policy options they could use to streamline and incentivize information sharing.
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HIEs send Direct messages across state borders

 Erin McCann March 20, 2013
Delaware, Kansas facilitate secure sharing of patient records with each others health information exchange.
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Patient engagement pilots find success, face challenges

 Anthony Brino March 11, 2013
An ONC report on four state-based consumer innovation pilots shows emerging models for HIE-based patient engagement, as well as the technical, legal and financial barriers similar projects are facing.
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Study examines economic benefits of health IT

 Jeff Rowe March 04, 2013
When it comes to providing economic value, health IT delivers. For the most part, anyway.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan March 01, 2013
Imagine: A physician fresh from med school walking into an MS-DOS clinic while streaming Spotify on an Android device. Inconceivable?
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Kansas completes first immunization registry transaction

 Mike Miliard February 27, 2013
The transmission of immunization data from an HIE to a statewide registry "breaks barriers" to "show the way for other HIEs nationally."
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HIE 2.0 closer than it might appear

 Tom Sullivan February 26, 2013
The health information exchange model is metamorphosing from its initial phase of Direct secure messaging and patient look-up toward a new age of value-added services that one HIE director believes "will have a profound effect on healthcare," quality across America.
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Quick parse: 4 parts to HIPAA final rule on Privacy and Security

 Tom Sullivan January 17, 2013
The document is nearly 600 pages, but early on HHS explains that there are four rules within the omnibus final HIPAA Privacy and Security rule. Here they are, straight from the source.
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Delaware HIE finds HISP for Direct messaging

 Anthony Brino January 09, 2013
The Delaware Health Information Network is preparing to provide Direct Project messaging services with a HISP provided by ICA's AlliedHIE company, in what HIE officials see as an important step towards interoperability.
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Q&A: MeHI director looks at Massachusetts' HIE road ahead

 Anthony Brino December 11, 2012
Laurance Stuntz, the director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute, says the HIE is going to be one important part of the Commonwealth's cost-containment efforts.
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Patient ID proofing for EHR access must be easy, HIT policy committees say

 Mary Mosquera December 03, 2012
VA, DOD, and states, like Indiana, are already working with solutions for verifying patient identity so they can access EHR records.
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UC Davis population health institute publishes HIE buyers' guide

 Anthony Brino November 05, 2012
The University of California Davis Health System's Institute for Population Health Improvement has published the "HIE Ready Buyers' Guide," in an effort to help guide providers through vendor procurement or in joining health information exchanges and organizations.
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Interoperability testing critical for exchange, Aegis.Net says

 Mary Mosquera October 31, 2012
Interoperability can be fragile even when developers write good code, so testing early by vendors and other organizations is critical for meaningful use and health information exchange.
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CMS officials offer snapshot of recent MU progress, $7.7B paid out

 Anthony Brino October 17, 2012
CMS officials tallied up recent MU registrations and sorted through some recent data to offer a snapshot of EHR progress.
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Public health and HIEs: IIS integration

 Noam Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS September 12, 2012
Noam Arzt delves into the different strategies and tactics that health information exchanges might consider when looking to create system-to-system interoperability.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan August 24, 2012
MU Stage 2 final rule appears, but there's plenty of other EHR, HIE, and HIN news, too, with a sprinkling of advice about cloud computing.
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Walgreens to implement system-wide EHR

 Jeff Rowe August 24, 2012
Greenway Medical Technologies announced that drug store giant Walgreens is ramping up implementation of Greenway’s EHR throughout the Walgreens chain.
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A verb or not, HIE rounded up for the week

 Anthony Brino August 23, 2012
West Virginia pilots, Rochester good-to-go, HIE board on the Prairie, Ohio docs jump into registry, conference talks HIE future and an HIE long read
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Ohio docs send public health data from EHRs to state registry

 Mary Mosquera August 20, 2012
Two Ohio practices transmit immunization data to state health department through HealthBridge and Dayton health information exchanges.
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CMS calls for improved patient record keeping, integration, and data analytics infrastructure

Industry News Release August 17, 2012
More complete patient data integration is essential to moving the bar on improved patient care. For the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), this includes a new organization wide IT system dubbed the Knowledge Discovery Infrastructure (KDI).
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