Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 10:52
In this direct project, CareSpark, a non-profit regional health information exchange supported by the Tennessee State HIE, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) seek to demonstrate Direct Project-based health information exchange between a federal agency and providers in a private-sector HIE. The main focus will be on facilitating an improved process for exchanging referrals and consultation reports between VA providers and private-sector providers in east Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
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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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Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 10:20
The video is over the top and professionally done by Axolotyl for the Health Information Partnership for Tennessee. HIPTN’s mission is to improve access to health information through a statewide collaborative process by providing services and infrastructure for the secure electronic exchange and use of health information. Their vision to be the recognized state and national leader that supports measureable improvement in clinical quality and efficiency to healthcare consumers, providers, and payors through the provision of secure HIE services.
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Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 11:25
The East Tennessee Health Innovation Network (etHIN) is a community coalition teaming with local hospital systems, the Knoxville Academy of Medicine and community physicians, patients/consumers, payers and employer leaders collaborating on creating a consumer-driven interoperable health care information exchange network utility that significantly improves health care safety and quality while making care more affordable.
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Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 11:39
CareSpark, the Kingsport, Tenn.-based Regional Health Information Organization, may shut down, because of an unsustainable financial model and an inability to function on its own. After six years, the system, which holds records for 1.28 million patients, has failed to come up with a viable plan to stay afloat.
Can a regional health information exchange survive without federal funds?
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 14:39
The Institute for Health Technology Transformation presented a webinar entitled “Sustainable Strategies in Health Information Exchange (HIE)” on May 25, 2011. Sustainability is perhaps one of the biggest and most challenging issues facing health information exchanges nationwide. What happens when the initial grant or other “seed” money runs out and the HIE is left to ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 09:48
The Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN) was formed as a Tennessee non-profit organization in the summer of 2009 with the purpose of improving the health of people served in Tennessee using a public-private framework to coordinate and empower the sharing of appropriate health information through local and regional Health Information Exchanges, as well ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 09:38
The Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect is a not-for profit regional health information exchange organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivered to every member of the community without regard to payer by connecting health care providers throughout Middle Tennessee.
HIE Vendor:
MTeHC uses Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) which was technology ...
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 09:14
TimesFreePress
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 - 3:27 p.m.
NASHVILLE — The federal government has approved an $11.6 million grant for Tennessee that will help existing health information exchanges share electronic health data and lower costs, the Bredesen administration announced today.
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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/21/tennessee-gets-116-million-grant-health-informatio/
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 15:49
CareSpark is a non-profit regional health information exchange working to improve health in a 34 county area of east Tennessee and southwest Virginia through the collaborative sharing of health information exchange.
On July 11, 2011, CareSpark Ceases Operations of Regional Health Information Exchange
CareSpark’s Board of Directors voted recently, with regret, to cease operations. CareSpark, despite ...
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