Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Adding clinical decision support and the capability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital enabled, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use at CalvertHealth Medical Center.

The pandemic caused the Arkansas provider to change implementation plans midstream. Now the EHR is an invaluable pandemic tool, and is hooked up to the state HIE.

The ADT-based collaboration network will collaborate with the Hospital Industry Data Institute to support delivery of near real-time data to Missouri care teams.

UAE capital’s healthcare sector celebrates achievement one year on from the launch of HIE platform, Malaffi.

The platform has had 73,000 users and 2.6 million requests since its launch in April.

How healthcare providers can leverage interoperability across the care continuum for improved care coordination and patient empowerment. 

This week's top stories include the ONC offering new funding for state and local HIE innovation, a decline in healthcare M&A transactions and Medtronic's plans to buy connected insulin pen startup Companion Medical.

Using $2.5 million from the CARES Act, the agency will give money to as many as five new projects that boost health information exchanges through its new Star HIE program.

Panelists at the ONC Tech Forum on Monday advised mapping the functions of health information exchanges to "confidentiality, integrity and availability."

While the APIs mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act will eventually enable a more "seamless experience" across the care continuum, he said, state health information exchanges have a crucial role to play in coordinating pandemic response right now.