Nebraska HIE expands with Axolotl platform

Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital, in Hastings, Neb., has joined the Nebraska Health Information Initiative, a nonprofit statewide health information exchange (HIE) designed to share clinical and administrative data among providers using Axolotl’s Elysium Exchange platform.

The addition of the hospital extends the HIE's reach into central Nebraska, and Mary Lanning Memorial can now electronically exchange patient information with other hospitals and physicians across disparate EMRs, according to Axolotl, of San Jose, Calif.

The statewide Elysium Virtual Health Record provides authorized physicians with direct access to all available patient data, at the point of care, the company said.

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