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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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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Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 15:58
Chad Johnson from Corepoint Health provides an excellent series of six articles on health information exchanges. The second of six provides an overview of the different types of HIE models; federated, centralized, hybrid and private. It is worth the read.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 16:57
Chad Johnson from Corepoint Health provides an excellent series of six articles on health information exchanges. This first of six covers the motivation behind having an HIE.
Now that the majority of innovative healthcare organizations have invested the capital, the time and the effort to install electronic medical records, many are looking to fully leverage the technology by connecting to a health information exchange, or HIE.
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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 09:56
What do you get when two companies that have yet to prove their capabilities in healthcare information technology decide to get married?
A Caradigm!
What are your thoughts on this joint venture? How long do you think this marriage will last?
REDMOND, Wash., and BARRINGTON, Ill.— Feb. 13, 2012 — General Electric Co. (GE), through its healthcare IT business, and Microsoft Corp. today announced several developments for their planned 50-50 joint venture, including the intention to demonstrate future product capabilities at HIMSS12, the year’s largest healthcare IT trade show, later this month. The new company, to be named Caradigm™, is expected to launch in the first half of 2012, pending regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
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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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Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 10:09
InterSystems Corporation, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that InterSystems HealthShare™ has been chosen to support health information exchange (HIE) throughout Denmark. I tried to locate a website for the Danish NSI and came up with http://www.sst.dk/. If you can read Danish you’ll just fine. I don’t.
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