Mirth Corporation, a global leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, announced that the Crescent City Beacon Community (CBCC), one of 17 federally funded Beacon Communities nationwide, will utilize their full suite of interoperability and care management solutions to achieve its innovative vision for connected care across the greater New Orleans area. The Beacon
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Orion Health, the leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, today announced that St. Vincent’s HealthCare, a faith-based, not-for-profit health system in Jacksonville, Fla., has selected Orion Health HIE to connect disparate software systems and enable enterprise-wide sharing of clinical data as well as communications with community physicians. St. Vincent’s HealthCare will
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eHealthConnecticut exchanged its first set of clinical data in January, placing the health information exchange in an elite group of operational HIEs. eHealthConnecticut’s achievement is particularly unique as the organization employs open source software to power the exchange.
Verizon announced one of the first successful pilots highlighting the integration of the ‘Direct Project’ and ‘NHIN Connect’ initiatives spearheaded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Verizon, working with health information technology provider MEDfx, has implemented a pilot program for diabetes care management with MedVirginia/CenVaNet and Dominion Medical Associates, showing
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Verizon and MEDfx have successfully implemented a pilot program enabling health care providers that still use paper records to easily convert them to a digital format and share them with other authorized providers. The program addresses long-standing issues that have blocked the widespread adoption of electronic health care records: the complexity and expense that health
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Reinventing the wheel every time it wanted to exchange health information wasn’t cost-effective or efficient for the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC). So when leaders at the Minneapolis, MN-based health system were approached by ABILITY (formerly VisionShare) to participate in a Direct Project pilot, they saw a way to streamline their efforts. “The exciting thing
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Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America and a major provider of electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, announced today that it is collaborating with the Medical Society of Virginia to participate in a new program called Health Information Technology Select. Medical Society of Virginia’s EHR vendor program is
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The Direct Project announced its final specifications last week, including the core Direct Project requirements and a specification which describes how EHRs and other health IT systems can leverage the Direct Project to securely exchange direct messages. The Direct Project also announced the release of two specifications and a draft compatibility statement that will help
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In the process of creating an enterprise health information exchange for his health system’s affiliated physicians, John Norenberg, Advocate Health Care’s vice president of physician services, learned a valuable lesson
“Our physicians aren’t interested in anything but results,” he says. “They don’t care which layer of the technology is underperforming and they don’t care whose vendor is underperforming. As a result, if there’s a problem, I own it. You have to understand that going into a project like ours.”
VisionShare, the Minnesota-based company that worked with Hennepin County Medical Center on its Direct Project pilot, announced earlier this month that it would invest up to $50 million over the next year to enable direct, secure connectivity for U.S. providers on the VisionShare network. More than 3,000 hospitals and tens of thousands of other providers
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