FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – August 12, 2014 – DataMotion™, an experienced health information service provider (HISP) with the industry’s leading record of customer deployments and Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) attestations, today announced that the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Dell has added DataMotion Direct secure messaging to its industry-leading portfolio of services.

DENVER, Aug. 6, 2014--More than 70 providers at the Boulder Medical Center, a multispecialty group that also operates an urgent care clinic, are now using health information exchange, in addition to an advanced electronic medical record system, to coordinate care for more than 200,000 annual patient visits.Through CORHIO's secure electronic network, Boulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication. This is reducing patient wait times, helping doctors make faster and more accurate clinical decisions, and saving staff time previously spent tracking down patients' medical records.

Fueled by more than $26 billion in federal investments, EHR adoption has increased significantly among physicians and hospitals. But exchange of health information among clinicians, hospitals and other providers remains sparse despite its many benefits, according to a joint policy brief by Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which examined this issue.

The Kansas Health Information Network is linking up to the national health information network, eHealth Exchange—a non-profit, public-private initiative created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

Hospital participation in the exchange of health information has grown significantly since 2008, Michelle Consolazio, health IT policy analyst at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, told the Health IT Policy Committee on Aug. 6.

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 5, 2014--Today, Access My Records, Inc. announced its patent-pending technology to provide hospitals, HIEs and healthcare software vendors with a "low-touch" solution to "auto-create" a patient portal originated from standardized HL7 patient documents (structured CCDs or unstructured CDAs)  sent over Secure Direct Messaging.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California, rival payers, are spending $80 million to fund development of the California Integrated Data Exchange, known as Cal INDEX.

A New York public health department has improved its tracking efforts by leveraging the data contained in the regional health information exchange.