Health Information Exchange News & Announcements
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
SCL Health System’s Denver Hospitals Now Connected To The CORHIO Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network
CORHIO (@CORHIO), the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, announced that SCL Health System’s three Denver-areas hospitals have successfully connected to its health information exchange (HIE) network. The three hospitals include Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. Combined, the hospitals provide care to more than 100,000 residents and last year reported more than 160,000 emergency room visits, over 400,000 outpatient visits and 45,000 inpatient hospitalizations. Read press release.
NextGen Healthcare Selected by Avita Health System to Enhance Interoperability and Care Coordination
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC. (@NextGen), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced an agreement with Avita Health System (@SocialMediaAvit) for the deployment of a range of NextGen® solutions across its extensive enterprise. Avita Health System will use NextGen® solutions to improve organizational efficiencies and drive growth as it strives to comply with regulatory requirements mandated by healthcare reform. Read press release.
St. Bernards Healthcare Selects InteliChart to Streamline Patient-Provider Communication and Promote Health Information Exchange
InteliChart (@InteliChart), a leading provider of patient engagement and health information exchange (HIE) technology, announced that St. Bernards Healthcare, the largest healthcare integrated delivery network in northeastern Arkansas, has selected InteliChart’s Enterprise Patient Portal to deliver a single portal solution for its system of acute and ambulatory care facilities. Read press release.
St. Joseph Health Selects InterSystems HealthShare To Deliver Breakthroughs in Clinical Outcomes, Patient Engagement
InterSystems Corporation (@InterSystems), a global leader in software for connected care, announced that St. Joseph Health (SJH), an integrated healthcare delivery system serving patients in California, Texas and New Mexico, has selected InterSystems HealthShare® as its health informatics platform. SJH(@stjoehealth) is relying on HealthShare to engage and connect its provider and patient communities to improve health outcomes, inspire and encourage healthy behaviors, and create a successful environment for accountable care. Read press release.
Clinigence and Halfpenny Technologies Partner to Enhance Data Capabilities Across the Care Continuum
Clinigence (@clinigence), a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology provider, announced a strategic partnership with Halfpenny Technologies, an interoperability technology framework and cloud-based platform enabling the exchange of clinical data. Through this alliance, physician practices and emerging organizations such as an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) will be able to more effectively gather the necessary clinical data from across the care continuum to provide improved coordination of care. Read press release.
AirStrip and PeriGen Partner to Strengthen Maternal and Fetal Care
AirStrip® (@AirStripmHealth), the leading provider of mobile healthcare solutions for driving clinical transformation, announced a partnership with PeriGen® (@PeriGen), an innovative provider of clinical decision support-based obstetrics (OB) technology, to incorporate a number of PeriGen’s tools into AirStrip’s interoperable enterprise mobility solution. Read press release.