Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The nonprofit group is joining with six state medical societies to incentivize practicing physicians to link their EHRs to health information exchanges.

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health will provide access to two core national systems - the National Health Index (NHI) and Health Practitioner Index (HPI) – using FHIR interfaces.

Optus to provide voice and data services underpinning Ramsay’s digital transformation.

Rather than those providers having to obtain patient health data manually from each of a patient's other sites of care, CommonWell enables sharing with other providers across the continuum.

The hospital has been able to use the Amazon Web Services-based interface engine to send hundreds of millions of messages both internally and externally.

Experts from across health IT, including members of the HL7 board and advisory council, say the new standard can do big things for data exchange, but it's not a cure-all.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT made interoperability news on several fronts Friday: granting a much-requested 30-day extension for public comments on its proposed data exchange, information blocking and patient access rules and publishing the second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

AMIA CEO Doug Fridsma says healthcare should simplify its approach to data exchange: keeping a laser focus on worthwhile use cases, sharing first and standardizing later, while also taking some cues from the basic APIs that power the World Wide Web.

With Apple, Amazon and Google coming into healthcare and interoperability still lacking, it’s time to prepare for the coming platforms.

InterSystems HealthShare VP Don Woodlock explains some recent examples of how customers are putting the technology to work improving pop health outcomes and increasing revenue.