Healthcare in the real world doesn’t stop at the state line. Indiana and Ohio, through two of the nation’s largest health information exchanges, are demonstrating the ability to follow the footprint of the patient across the region through the digital exchange of information across communities, states and technology systems.
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Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC) and Health Information Network of Arizona (HINAz) have completed a merger and are now one operational and legal entity as of January 1, 2016. This merger culminates a collaborative two-year process that began when the Boards of AzHeC and HINAz voted to formally affiliate and combine operations in February 2014.
With 2015 rapidly winding down, DirectTrust released a list of six trends it predicts for interoperable electronic exchange of health information during the coming year. DirectTrust is a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable exchange of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination of care.
The California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX) announced that Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, will participate in the statewide health information exchange (HIE) as a foundational provider organization.
Improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care delivered in their states. Here are updates being reported from PA eHealth Partnership Authority, Arizona’s AzHeC, Colorado’s CORHIO, Vermont’s VITL, Indiana’s IHIE, and Idaho’s IHDE.
By David Dieterich – I recently attended the first Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) annual meeting in Deer Valley, Utah. If you are not familiar with this group, it’s a group of regional or state HIEs that formed a collaborative late last year.
Improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care delivered in their states. Here are updates being reported from Vermont, Colorado, Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, and California.
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia’s statewide health information exchange, and Alabama’s One Health Record announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks.
The first annual meeting of the recently formed Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative produced several key initiatives and elected the 2015-2016 SHIEC Board of Directors. SHIEC is a national consortium and trade association of regional and community HIEs formed in late 2014.