An Important Shift, Most Hospitals Now Favor HIEs, Whatever Those Are
For quite some time — I’d estimate five years at least — health information exchanges were the dark horse of the health IT world. A few successful ones emerged, but far more foundered, in many cases...
View ArticleHospital Mergers Make HIE Integration Even Tougher
In the fantasy world of shared healthcare data, all hospitals will gradually join HIEs, share data regionally and then nationally, and patient care will substantially improve. Or at least hospitals...
View ArticleTampa Hospitals, Physicians In Tug Of War Over RHIO
Sometimes, RHIOs fail to gel or fall apart because of technical issues. But in one Florida community, it seems like pure politics may doom efforts by area doctors and hospitals to connect. According to...
View ArticleHealth Information Exchange
In an email response to my EMR and HIPAA post on HIE Waste, Edward Fotsch, M.D. and CEO of PDR Network offered these insights into the state and some history of Health Information Exchanges: The...
View ArticleLarger CO Hospitals On Board With RHIO
Colorado’s hospitals have reached an interoperability turning point. With the addition of Exempla Healthcare’s three Colorado hospitals to CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization,...
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