Monday, March 12th, 2012 at 11:50
ConnectVirginia provides a secure, confidential electronic system to support the exchange of patient medical records among participating health care providers in Virginia and beyond. ConnectVirginia is the Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the Commonwealth of Virginia that is being built with funding from the Virginia Department of Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This initiative is being led by Community Health Alliance, Inc., a Virginia-based not-for-profit company led by a governing body of healthcare professionals and executives from across the Commonwealth.
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012 at 12:11
Medicity, Krysora, and Gorge Health Connect, Inc. (GHC) are launching a Direct Pilot in Oregon. GHC is a health information exchange service provider in the Columbia River Gorge area of Oregon. Members of GHC include hospitals, federally-qualified health clinics, primary care providers, specialists, mental health services, and county health departments covering a four-county area in ...
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at 12:01
A broad set of stakeholders in South Texas are using the Direct Project to improve the health status of persons in South Texas with diabetes, including gestational diabetes. Participants come from the medical community (CHRISTUS Health, the Health Information Network of South Texas, the Driscoll Children’s Health Plan, Corpus Christi Medical Center, the Public Health Department, and Nueces County Medical Society), community-based social service organizations, colleges, and employers (the Coastal Bend Diabetes Community Collaborative, The Salvation Army, United Way, and others).
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 at 11:34
direct projectMedical Professional Services (MPS) is a clinically-integrated, multi-specialty IPA in Connecticut with approximately 400 physician members. Along with several partners, MPS is working to demonstrate successful exchange of laboratory results back to the ordering provider and exchange of referral information and summary care information between providers, a local hospital (Middlesex Hospital) and a multi-site Federally Qualified Health Center (Community Health Center, Inc.). Electronic exchange of data is a challenge in this setting because of the diversity of MPS physician practices, EHRs and HIT tools in place.
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Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 11:29
Redwood MedNet provides health information exchange services in rural Northern California. The Redwood MedNet pilot has one goal: to deploy directed secure messaging for production data delivery in support of meaningful use measures. Three meaningful use messaging patterns are in development.
Receipt of Structured Lab Results
Immunization Reporting
Sharing Patient Care Summaries Across Unaffiliated Organizations (including both ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 13:26
Gorge Health Connect (GHC), is a health information exchange (HIE) connecting hospitals, federally-qualified health clinics, primary care providers (PCPs), specialists, public health and others. GHC has launched a Direct Project Pilot, one of the first in the nation, which is an important step in realizing the federal government’s goal of a connected healthcare system that encompasses all providers.
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 at 09:46
The Direct project is gaining widespread traction, with more than 20 states and 60 healthcare organizations pledging support as of late March, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – encouraging numbers because they comprise some 90 percent of the market share covered by participating health IT vendors.
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Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 11:35
Healthcare Access San Antonio (HASA), is a collaborative health initiative spearheaded by all major health care providers in San Antonio. It has been working on realizing these efforts since 2006 by implementing technology tools to expand the access to care for people without insurance. The Health Information Exchange currently provides the interoperable exchange of clinical data inclusive of patient visits/encounters, key medical data sets, medication history, clinical history, clinical summaries, and immunization data with plans to also include lab orders/results, radiology reports, and clinical messaging in the near future.
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