What You Should Know: - CRISP, the nonprofit state-designated health information exchange (HIE) of Maryland, announced plans to expand its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project across the state to support care teams as they navigate redetermination for 1.6 million Medicaid enrollees. - The project is a collaboration across state agencies and began as a pilot supporting federally qualified health centers who expressed concerns about lacking resources that would contribute to
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies
What You Should Know: - HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative
agreements under the Strengthening
the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange
(STAR HIE) Program. The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and
accelerate innovative
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds
What You Should Know: - A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information. - The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form. - The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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Montana Awarded $19M Grant for Statewide Health Information Exchange
- CMS awards the state of Montana with a $19M grant to support a statewide health information exchange (HIE). - Montana Governor Steve Bullock names Big Sky Care Connect as the operator of the statewide HIE. - Big Sky Care Connect plans to start sharing healthcare data in 2020. Montana Governor Steve
Bullock announced
the state has received $19 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) to support a statewide health information exchange (HIE). The
funding
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SHIEC: HIEs Provide Critical Infrastructure to Support Nationwide Interoperability
America’s health information exchanges (HIEs) provide critical infrastructure to support interoperability serving 92% of Americans, delivering more than one billion clinical alerts annually, according to a recent Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative survey.These are real-time notifications of hospital admissions, discharges or transfers (ADTs) delivered to doctors, hospitals and other organizations tasked with coordinating the care and services of high-needs patients. These alerts
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Innovaccer, Launches InAPI to Aggregate Healthcare Data for Providers, Payers, and Vendors
Healthcare organizations are riding the wave of digital disruption with increased adoption of applications to power patient centric-care, communications, and collaboration with peer organizations in the network. With this objective, they are seeking to integrate crucial information across the care continuum and establish interoperability among complex and disparate data systems- including legacy systems.Existing Interoperability ChallengesThere are over 200 EHRs in the US healthcare space,
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Physicians Foundation Launches Interoperability Fund to Improve HIEs Across 6 States
The Physicians Foundation unveils Interoperability Fund to improve health information exchanges in six states to support medical practices in transition in value-based care.The Physicians Foundation, in association with six state medical societies, today announced the formation of the first of its kind interoperability fund, known as The Physicians Foundation Interoperability Fund, which will assist medical practices in effectively sharing clinical information with other physicians and hospitals
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Missouri Health Connection, DrFirst Partner to Offer Clinicians Turnkey Access to Medication History Data
DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today that it has successfully implemented an interoperability gateway with Missouri Health Connection (MHC) that will give clinicians easy access to medication data history. MHC is the only secure, statewide HIE in Missouri supporting over 8,000 clinicians, hundreds of clinics and community health centers and more than 75 hospitals, and health plans with access to comprehensive patient
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eHealth Exchange Integrates FHIR Directory with InterSystems to Power Network Expansion
eHealth Exchange, a nationwide health information networks connecting the public and private sectors, announced it will integrate its FHIR Healthcare Directory with InterSystems solutions. The integration will enable the HIE network to enhance its patient-centric services while also completing its implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, which is used by an estimated 600,000 physicians to share data today across and among networks. Integration DetailsThe eHealth Exchange
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eCLINICALWORKS Unveils Health Information Search Engine to Create Longitudinal View of Patient Record
Health information search engine Prizma presents data from various networks to create a complete longitudinal view of the patient recordeClinicalWorks, a provider of healthcare IT solutions, today announced the debut of Prizma, a health information search engine, to facilitate care across networks. By coordinating information from interoperability networks, such as CommonWell and Carequality, as well as payers such as CMS Blue Button® 2.0 API, Prizma will establish one longitudinal view to
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