McKesson unveils HIE platform

Health IT company McKesson has unveiled Practice Partner Connect, a health information exchange (HIE) interoperability platform, as a part of version 9.3.3. of Practice Partner.

Practice Partner Connect is designed to enable clinical and financial data exchange across care settings via any type of HIE with communication recorded and accessible within the system, according to the San Francisco company. McKesson added that providers maintain full control of their data, but can share critical information regarding the treatment of their patients, eligibility checking and billing.

Practice Partner features Bright Note Technology, which populates critical data on a patient chart, enabling physicians and other providers to use their preferred charting style to capture data in a screen note and synchronize searchable data across a complete chart, McKesson said.

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