St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) in Southern California has chosen Accenx Exchange as its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform from Accenx Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of data management company Initiate Systems.

The Pennsylvania Governors Office of Healthcare Reform issued a strategic plan this month in the hope of streamlining the creation of a health information exchange (HIE) through a collaboration between the governments of Pennsylvania and Delaware.

InSite One, a provider of medical data archiving and disaster recovery managed services, has created a health information exchange (HIE), spanning more than 600 healthcare institutions across the U.S.

The Carolina eHealth Alliance has selected Telus Health Solutions' health information exchange (HIE) product, Oacis HIE, to electronically connect patient records across 12 disparate emergency departments in South Carolina.

Healthcare officials in Washington are discussing standards for the technical architecture of modern health information exchanges. And while such standards havent yet been finalized to meet the objectives of meaningful use of electronic medical records, the U.S. government starts doling out $564 million in grants to states in early 2010 to fund state-level networks for exchanging electronic patient information.

Canada Health Infoway has met a number of serious challenges concerning its EHR deployment timeline and it needs to implement more standards, controls and progress indicators, according to a report this week from Canada's Auditor General, Sheila Frase.

Axolotl has released Elysium Image Exchange, a technology that enables the electronic sharing of medical images between healthcare providers participating in a health information exchange (HIE).

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has begun planning for the eventual implementation of a statewide health information exchange (HIE).