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Health Current’s more than tenfold growth over the past six years can be credited to a switch to a new technology platform that allowed it to scale its participant base and send real-time updates to providers, said CEO Melissa Kotrys, who also chairs the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative, the national association of HIEs. Read More

With THSA well-established, Gooch said he recognized the positive HIE collaborations that are happening across the country. A recent example is the potential western regional HIE, led by Health Current in Arizona and Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). Read More

In Colorado, EMS agencies can query the CORHIO HIE’s PatientCare 360 web portal for data from hospitals and labs. They also have access to Direct messaging with other providers. Read More

Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate for federal support to drive data sharing amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More

A group of national leaders in health information exchange (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI). The vision of this organization is to see individual and population health improve nationwide through robust electronic health data interoperability. Read More

Most state and local health information exchanges (HIEs) are supporting a vast number of services and are developing connections to each other and national networks in preparation for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), according to a study published in Health Affairs. Read More

As part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rules around Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for hospitals and long-term facilities – changes that could boost FY 2022 hospital payments by $2.8% – there are several provisions focused on technology, information exchange and patient access. Read More

A study cited by the National Academy of Medicine found that medical care itself only accounted for 10–20% of the contributors to people’s health outcomes. By contrast, the many social determinants of health play a much bigger role in influencing a person’s health, making up 80–90% of the contributing factors. Read More

"Throughout the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to address the issue of patient identification. The inability to accurately match patients with their records has severe patient safety and financial implications, and impedes health information exchange," said Hal Wolf, president and CEO of Healthcare IT News parent company HIMSS, in a statement. Read More

Even the best medical care, on average, will extend and improve our lives less than the combined benefits of nutritious foods, access to places to be physically active, safe and healthy homes, good air quality, lack of chronic stress, social support, and other aspects of what are sometimes called the “social determinants of health.” As much as 80 percent of the factors that influence our health, it turns out, operate... Read More