Health Information Exchange (HIE)

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Providers Unhappy With HIE Vendors' Sharing Capabilities

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | November 6, 2012

As interoperability issues persist in the health information exchange market, respondents in a new KLAS survey report dissatisfaction with their vendors. Read More »

Q&A: Bettina Experton Talks About The iBlueButton App

Mary Mosquera | mHIMSS | March 1, 2013

Humetrix has given the iBlueButton a technical design boost as a multi- and cross-platform health information hub that patients and providers can use to share health data at the point of care with the most popular mobile tools. Read More »

Q&A: Moving From A PCMH To A 'Medical Neighborhood' Via Direct

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | May 31, 2012

Sharing medical records between different vendors' EHRs is one of the meaningful use Stage 2 measures that some folks would like to see yanked – but not MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, or John Blair, MD. Read More »

Qualidigm Announces New Chief Executive Officer

Press Release | Qualidigm | April 4, 2013

Qualidigm, the national health care consulting company headquartered in Rocky Hill, Conn., has named Timothy M. Elwell as its new CEO following an extensive national search. Effective immediately, Elwell succeeds Marcia K. Petrillo as CEO. Petrillo, who announced her retirement last June, led the growing and award-winning organization for more than 37 years. Read More »

Quality Systems Inc. releases Mirth Connect 3.0 Open Source Healthcare Integration Engine

Press Release | Quality Systems | October 9, 2013

Quality Systems, Inc...announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Mirth, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability, released Mirth® Connect 3.0. Mirth Connect is an open source healthcare integration engine, specifically designed for HL7 message integration... Read More »

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Mirth Corporation

Press Release | Mirth Corporation, Quality Systems, Inc. | September 9, 2013

[Quality Systems, Inc.], announced today it has acquired Mirth Corporation, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. The acquisition will enhance the Company’s current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Read More »

RAIN Live Oak Demonstrates New Standard for Healthcare Provider Directories

Press Release | RAIN Live Oak | February 26, 2015

Last month, RAIN Live Oak, a member of the California Association of Health Information Exchanges, participated in the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon 2015 to demonstrate the IHE Profile for Healthcare Provider Directory (HPD). Participation in the Connectahon, a week-long interoperability-testing event, was a significant opportunity for the advancement of the HPD standard, which supports management of healthcare provider information in a directory structure, and it proved to be an undeniable success. RAIN is a participant of the California Trusted Exchange Network (CTEN), which utilizes a federated architecture for Directory Services using HPD specifications. Read More »

Recipients of the 2011 EHR Game Changers Awards

Jospeh Goedert | Health Data Management | December 21, 2011

Health Data Management launched the EHR Game Changers program in 2010 to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology.

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Redwood MedNet's HIE Plug: Low Cost Interoperability Solution For Small, Rural Practices

Sue Dormanen | CCI Voice | November 12, 2012

The latest Life as a CIO Blog by John D. Halamka features Will Ross of Redwood MedNet and the "HIE Plug" -- a low cost interoperability solution for small practices in rural locations. Read More »

Regenstrief licenses HIE software

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | April 22, 2013

The Regenstrief Institute, an electronic medical records and health information exchange research group, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. Read More »

Regenstrief to Highlight Open Source Projects for Health Information Exchange, Data Analysis at MedInfo 2015

Press Release | Regenstrief Institute | August 20, 2015

Regenstrief Institute investigators experienced in the use of data to improve health care and its delivery in resource-constrained environments will introduce attendees at MedInfo 2015 to open source options for health information exchange and data analysis. Regenstrief investigator Shaun Grannis, M.D....and colleagues will present a workshop on OpenHIE, an international health information interoperability initiative supported by a growing community of governments, organizations, companies and individuals. Dr. Grannis, associate professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, is OpenHIE's chief architect, spearheading overall design.

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Report From HIMSS 2012: Toward Interoperability and Openness

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | February 22, 2012

I was wondering how it would feel to be in the midst of 35,000 people whose livelihoods are driven by the decisions of a large institution at the moment when that institution releases a major set of rules. I didn't really find out, though. The 35,000 people I speak of are the attendees of the HIMSS conference and the institution is the Department of Health and Human Services. Read More »

Report From HIMSS: Health Care Tries to Leap the Chasm From the Average to the Superb

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | February 21, 2012

I couldn't attend the session today on StealthVest--and small surprise. Who wouldn't want to come see an Arduino-based garment that can hold numerous health-monitoring devices in a way that is supposed to feel like a completely normal piece of clothing? Read More »

Rochester RHIO Plots Value Of HIEs And Imaging

Patty Enrado | Government Health IT | October 30, 2012

When the Rochester RHIO was established in 2006 to improve the quality and efficiency of care in the greater Rochester, NY, area, one of the requirements from a local matching grant was to enable diagnostic-image sharing among healthcare providers. Read More »

S&I's Doug Fridsma on NwHIN Enabling the Next Amazon, eBay or Facebook

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 22, 2011

Consider NwHIN to be the building blocks for what may become the World Wide Web of healthcare information – on top of which may one day be the next Amazon, eBay or Facebook, only with a health slant. Read More »