Direct Messaging and Partnerships to Enhance HIE
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
DHHS, Nevada State Medical Association and Orion Health™ Partner to Offer NV DIRECT Secure Messaging for Health Information Exchange (HIE)
CARSON CITY, NV – June 2013 – The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that NV DIRECT is now available for health care providers. NV DIRECT is a secure, encrypted web-based communication system for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other clinical staff to directly share protected health information (PHI) with known, trusted recipients. It does not require participants to have an electronic health record or to purchase additional software. The only requirement is a connection to the Internet. Free NV DIRECT Email addresses for the first 200 qualifying participants. Read the Press Release.
Washington Regional Medical System Partners with InteliChart to Enhance HIE Across Its Network
CHARLOTTE, NC – Jun 2013 – Platform to support care coordination through seamless integration of patient-centric data from disparate systems. Leading healthcare information technology provider InteliChart, Inc. announced the selection of both InteliChart Patient Portal and InteliChart Health Information Exchange (HIE) by Washington Regional Medical System (WRMS). With the patient portal and HIE, WRMS will be positioned to acquire, aggregate and standardize patient information gathered from the patient portal and the health system’s disparate electronic health records (EHRs), and collect it into one patient health record. As such, the InteliChart platform will help WRMS streamline the exchange of patient-centric data between its hospitals, surgery center and ambulatory community practices, thereby enhancing care coordination. Read the Press Release.
North Dakota Health Information Network Selects Orion Health’s HIE Platform to Power Statewide Health Information Exchange
SANTA MONICA, CA – June 2013 -Orion Health, the leader in eHealth technology, and the North Dakota Health Information Network (NDHIN) announced that NDHIN has selected Orion Health HIE to power North Dakota’s statewide health information exchange (HIE). NDHIN providers will utilize Orion Health HIE to enhance a number of healthcare programs aimed at improving care transitions, streamlining physician-to-physician referrals and expanding existing immunization registry data, among others. Orion Health HIE will provide the technology backbone supporting NDHIN programs that advance the network’s core vision: Quality healthcare for all North Dakotans – anywhere, anytime. Read the Press Release.
Healtheway Announces Founding Members for Groundbreaking Public/Private Health IT Exchange
MCCLEAN, VA – June 2013 – Healtheway, the non-profit, public-private partnership that operationally supports the eHealth Exchange (formerly known as the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) today announced its nine founding organizations. The organizations are influential representatives from across the healthcare spectrum. They will supplement the involvement of the federal government that has coalesced around the eHealth Exchange. Read the Press Release.
Georgia Department of Community Health Selects Truven Health Analytics to Develop Statewide Health Information Exchange
ANN ARBOR, MI – June 2013 -The Georgia Department of Community Health announced today that it has selected Truven Health Analytics as their partner to build and implement a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN).
The GaHIN exchange will utilize Truven Health to provide clinicians throughout the state with a longitudinal patient history at the point of care by securely capturing real-time clinical and administrative data from electronic medical records, healthcare claims, CMS and other sources. It will be the fifth statewide HIE supported by Truven Health’s platform. Read the Press Release.