KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jan. 27, 2015 — The organization connecting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for nearly one million patients at 11 different health care facilities in Georgia, is growing. In the past six months, the number of data sources providing information through the GRAChIE network has grown by 450 percent.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2015-- Cloud based technology helps in the maintenance and management of a large amount of data stored in a centralized database that can be accessed when needed. It saves a rather significant amount of infrastructural costs.

Three senators want to know what happened to the nearly $600 million doled out to several health information exchanges between 2010 and 2014.

Connecticut's health information exchange, known as Health IT Exchange (HITE-CT), is shutting down. Its failure is due in large part to internal mismanagement and bad privacy policies that undermined the public trust, according to Ellen Andrews, executive director of the Connecticut Health Policy Project.

Maine’s health information exchange, HealthInfoNet, is now offering providers analytics and predictive tools to study market share, clinical performance, population health and patient risk in real-time. 

AUSTIN, Texas and TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions and Kansas Health Information Network Inc. (KHIN), a health information exchange organization (HIO), today announced that e-MDs' electronic health records (EHR) technology is the first to exchange provider data directly with  the newly-created Kansas infectious disease registry.

After several regional health information exchanges merged in recent months, even more have come together to form a new national consortium.

More than 20 health information exchanges have banded together to form a national consortium called the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative.