Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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Todd Rogow does double duty for health information technology in Maine. As director of IT for HealthInfoNet, Maine’s statewide health information exchange, he provides the technology expertise and leadership for health data exchange across the state, and he also serves as director of Maine’s regional extension center (REC), which is tasked with bringing physicians on board with electronic health records.
When Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, thinks about health information exchange (HIE), he's also thinking about grammar and parts of speech.
HealthInfoNet, Maine’s statewide health information exchange (HIE) has achieved another first with the recent launch of image sharing. The pilot project puts both images and words at the fingertips of providers across the largely rural state.
Connect, link, exchange, share, go – a few verbs that lead to more verbs, such as care, decide, treat, recover, prevent. It must have been what health IT chief Farzad Mostashari, MD, had in mind when he told a packed auditorium of health IT pros at the annual HIMSS conference last February that he thinks of HIE as a verb.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone.
The New York eHealth Collaborative, the New York City Investment Fund and the New York State Department of Health have launched a $4.2 million program to foster health IT innovation and create 1,500 new jobs in the state.