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“CSRI is well-positioned to leverage economies of scale on projects that have the potential to move the interoperability needle in a big way,” Morgan Honea, CEO of CORHIO, said in a press release at the time of the announcement. “I am incredibly excited to be a part of this innovative group and look forward to developing and delivering HIT that can help solve significant data problems.” Read More

Colorado’s Office of eHealth Innovation administers a Telehealth and Broadband Initiative, and in response to the pandemic, awarded $2 million in grants for existing and new telehealth projects. The grants, awarded in partnership with (CORHIO) and the Quality Health Network, funded 34 projects covering a wide range of telehealth needs across the state, from covering staff training and expanding services options for... Read More

The consortium is made up of IHIE, Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), which covers Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia; CyncHealth in Nebraska and Iowa; Health Current of Arizona; Manifest MedEx of California; and Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). Read More

CORHIO manages one of the country’s largest and most successful health information exchange networks and works to improve healthcare through the use of information technology and data exchange. Read More

The urge to merge among health information exchanges continues with the announcement that the HIEs in Colorado and Arizona plan to form a regional health data utility in the West. Read More

While adoption of ONC 2015 certified health IT boosted data exchange, nationwide interoperability will require additional data standards and rules. Read More

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced the timeline for implementing its interoperability framework, which seeks to facilitate cost-effective data sharing across networks. ONC plans to have the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement's network open for participation in the first quarter of 2022. Read More

VHA primary care teams reported that an event notification EHR integration helped improve care coordination and fill in information gaps. Read More

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled new standards to allow the electronic exchange of patient data surrounding social determinants of health, sexual orientation and gender identity data. OCR's second version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability will allow providers to begin planning to collect and use social determinants and gender identity data in clinical... Read More

A new study from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers reports that primary care physicians recognize the need for better coordination and welcome health information exchange (HIE) event notifications as a means of improving the flow of information to enable provision of better patient care. Read More