Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Contest seeks innovative uses of APIs thay can enable consumers to more easily share their personal health data.

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner will be honored this fall with a prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. It’s one of three Distinguished Alumni Awards the Wisconsin Alumni Association will hand out.

Nationwide health data exchange across networks triples in two months.

The EHR market has become a media battleground, she said, rather than vendors competing on quality of products and services. So she, and the PR machine Epic is assembling, are girding for the fight. 

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

The research firm found that no vendor community excels at exchanging records with other vendors and while providers see value in participating in CommonWell and Carequality only a small subset are actively sharing data today.

The company is said to be the first in healthcare to achieve this validation, which ensures the payment network has met standards to protect data.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will ante $350,000 toward a better system of information sharing about cyber threats across healthcare.

One of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, it's only the second two-time winner of the Enterprise Davies Award since the inception of the program in 1994.

Consultancy Deloitte explained that the architecture has widespread implications for connecting fragmented systems to better assess the value of care and safeguard protected health information.