Health Information Exchanges

Health info exchange streamlines foster care services

The Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services’ SHARE eases coordination with physicians, lowering staff burden and health care costs.

  • By Kaitlyn Levinson

Health info exchange eases Medicaid redeterminations

CRISP, Maryland’s designated health data utility, will provide managed care organizations with data on patients whose Medicaid enrollment must be re-evaluated.

  • By Susan Miller

Bottom line on whether health information exchanges can succeed

When grant money runs out, state-run HIEs need to ensure that revenues exceed costs, NASCIO says.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Memo to health IT planners: no need to reinvent standards

Columnist Mike Daconta helps clarify the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recommendation for a universal exchange language for health care information and explains why it is more than feasible today.

  • By Michael C. Daconta

States to advise feds on nationwide data exchange project

The National Information Exchange Model will draw on input from NASCIO to help extend its data exchange program.

  • By Paul McCloskey

XML the Rx for sharing health data, panel says

A White House panel is recommending widespread adoption and use of Extensible Markup Language in health care to make it easier to exchange data.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Health network is ready — and waiting for your records

The Nationwide Health Information Network is moving out of its trial phase and into production deployment. But the amount of electronic health data has not yet reached the critical mass needed to fully support it.

  • By William Jackson

Security and privacy laws — and patients — hold sway over NHIN

The Nationwide Health Information Network, which is slowly expanding the secure exchange of electronic health records, must comply with FISMA and HIPAA. It also needs the consent of patients to electronically share records.

  • By William Jackson

HHS wiki airs concerns about planned health network service

The Health and Human Services Department's new wiki on its Nationwide Health Information Network Direct service provides a forum for concerns about the effects of the program.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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