Health Information Exchange (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.

The report cited associated costs, technological hiccups, the need for more community partners and training deficits as hurdles.

Much of the worldwide spending increase on APIs, data integration, analytics and more will be driven by governmental regulations and policy requirements, analysts said.