A group of national leaders in health information exchange announced 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.
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Indiana Health Information Exchange and Michiana Health Information Network, two pioneering HIEs in the nation, will consolidate their services and operations to unify HIE services for the state of Indiana.
I caught up with Daniel Chavez from San Diego Health Connect, Laura Young from healtheConnect Alaska, and John Kansky from Indiana HIE at the conference. Take a listen to their updates..
SHIEC, a collaborative representing HIEs, announced the national launch of the Patient Centered Data Home™ (PCDH) initiative, a nationwide initiative coordinated by SHIEC’s HIE members, including the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
By John P. Kansky – A few months ago, Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy thought and research, published an article by Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein and colleagues that found that the number of health information exchanges is declining.
By Jack H. Evans – It’s not a CCDA. Really… it’s not. Sometimes, acronyms feel like a recipe for a headache. There’s nothing quite like initials to make communications hard. Technology is full of them, though, and so is medicine. We’re at the intersection of both industries, on a street corner I call “Acronym Central.”
State HIEs come in all shapes and sizes but have one thing in common: To improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care delivered in their states. Check in on the latest news and updates being reported by these organizations.
By William Hersh MD – I wrote recently that one of my concerns for data science is the Big Data over-emphasis on one of its four Vs, namely volume. Since then, I was emailing with Dr. Shaun Grannis and other colleagues from the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
Healthcare in the real world doesn’t stop at the state line. Indiana and Ohio, through two of the nation’s largest health information exchanges, are demonstrating the ability to follow the footprint of the patient across the region through the digital exchange of information across communities, states and technology systems.