Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at
09:55
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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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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Monday, February 20th, 2012 at
08:27
Financing Research and Framework Development for a Health Information Exchange.
This video webinar was produced by HITECH Answers, www.hitechanswers.net. It reviews some of the possible scenarios in establishing the framework for a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Health Information Exchanges (HIE) are a key part of Electronic Health Record adoption and achieving the goals of the HITECH Act. The exchange must be secure and between authorized stakeholders in the healthcare community.
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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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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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