Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 09:55
Okay, so this press release is somewhat confusing to me because Southeastern Michigan already has a Health Information Exchange. See http://healthinformationexchanges.org/southeast-michigan-health-information-exchange/. Now this press release comes out where they state that the The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community is starting an HIE. SEMHIE isn’t even mentioned in the press release.
PR Newswire – 18 hrs ago
DETROIT, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community (SEMBC) announced today that it has started implementation of BeaconLink2Health, an all-new Health Information Exchange (HIE). BeaconLink2Health will deliver exchange capabilities previously unavailable in Southeast Michigan for health care providers to trusted, secure access to comprehensive patient electronic Protected Health Information (PHI) for improved patient care. This will be achieved through a community-level patient record of care.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 09:38
The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community (SEMBC) is comprised of the cities of Detroit, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, and Highland Park.
The goal of the SEMBC is to use HIT and Exchange along with other clinical interventions to enable patient-centered care and test clinical and operational interventions that are specifically designed to deliver significant, measured results – better quality of care, lower healthcare costs, and ultimately, improved overall health of the Southeast Michigan population.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 09:21
The Southeast Michigan Health Information Exchange (SEMHIE) is a multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to delivering the promise of integrated health information exchange throughout Southeast Michigan.
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 14:18
Axway (Paris:AXW) and GE Healthcare, a leading health information exchange software provider announced today that the Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut (HITE-CT), the state designated Health Information Exchange (HIE), has selected its combined solution for HIE. The selection includes Axway’s business-to-business (B2B) architecture and GE Healthcare’s Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) clinical Registry and Repository provider.
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 13:48
Highmark is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association based in Pittsburgh and they just announced they are working with New York-based Verizon to construct a health information exchange. Insurance companies controlling health information exchanges is a major concern of mine. What do you think they are going to do with all that patient data?????????
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 10:54
MyHealth Access Network (formerly the Greater Tulsa Health Access Network – Greater THAN) is a consortium of organizations who have come together to improve the health and quality of life for all Tulsans (and Oklahomans in the Tulsa region) through establishment of Health Information Exchange in the Greater Tulsa area. MyHealth Access Network is a non-profit coalition of more than 150 health care organizations in northeastern Oklahoma, with a goal to improve health care quality and the health of area residents while controlling costs.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 10:27
After three years of preparing small practices and safety net hospitals in rural Florida to participate in a regional health information exchange (HIE), the not-for-profit CommunityHealth IT has partnered with RelayHealth to enable the transfer of health information among providers and to empower patients and businesses with patient engagement tools.
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 13:17
Hawaii officials have selected Utah-based Medicity to develop the infrastructure for what will ultimately be a statewide health information exchange and electronic medical record system as Hawaii moves ahead with a key mandate of federal health-care reform.
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 07:28
The Camden Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a web-based technology that offers Camden city and regional healthcare providers access to important medical information for Camden patients. The HIE facilitates sharing of detailed clinical data among the primary hospitals, physician practices, laboratory and radiology groups in Camden, along with regional hospitals and healthcare institutions. As a result, healthcare providers will have the clinical information they need about their patients at the immediate point of care, which will reduce unnecessary duplication and foster improved care coordination.
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at 08:28
This video is on Health Information Exchanges and a perspective on how they can readily help improve patient care.
This is a story of a traveling musician and can remind us of the need for quick and easy access to personal medical data, especially in a place where nobody knows you (which is almost everywhere).
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