Interoperability
The White House has called for a "universal exchange language" to enable healthcare providers to share health information in real time, in order to modernize and coordinate diagnosis and treatment while incorporating privacy and security of personal data.
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In an investment it expects will pay dividends as healthcare IT usage grows apace, Aetna announced Tuesday that it would spend $500 million to acquire Medicity, the Salt Lake City-based developer of health information exchange technology.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is providing grants to states in order to fund health information exchange breakthroughs in five challenging areas that will promote sharing of patient records nationwide.
The Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) has announced a new pilot program to connect rural healthcare providers in the Moab, Utah region with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve access and coordination of patient care for veterans and service members living in rural areas.
CoActiv has announced a new EXAM-PACS donation program for qualifying educational institutions with accredited radiologic technologist training programs.
With the initial model for the Direct Project, a streamlined version of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in place, the federal Health IT Standards Committee has been evaluating how well it stacks up technically against other point-to-point data exchange methods.
In September, Healthcare IT News explained how one lawsuit against a nascent health information exchange could be a sign of things to come as states get their own HIEs up and running.
Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, announced in June it would hire more than 200 high-tech workers to help roll out its new clinical system across the country.
With a more urgent timeline for data sharing across the country, the government is now rethinking the Nationwide Health Information Network – the NHIN.