Alert notifications are proving their worth with improved care coordination and reduced costs.

Approximately 400 physicians passed the inaugural American Board of Preventive Medicine board certification examination for the clinical informatics specialty, which took place in October 2013.

Health information exchange was one of the topics the speakers addressed during the recent eHealth Summit presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Data from a health information exchange can more accurately identify patients with frequent hospital emergency department visits than a single site's records, according to research published in Health Affairs.

Despite the rapid growth of health information exchange, there has been little focus on the staffing and skills of those staffing HIEs, according to the participants of a panel discussion at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ eHealth Summit on Dec. 6.

Patient engagement, payment models, data harmonization and exchange and innovative encounter models are the four critical areas for the next decade of health IT, according to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Foundation's report.

Thirty-four Chicago-area hospitals are poised to link up to the city’s new health information exchange (HIE), set to launch in early 2014, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Orion Health, a leader in eHealth technology, the Nevada Health Information Exchange (NV-HIE) and Nevada’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), today announced that the NV-HIE Board of Directors selected the Orion Health HIE to power and enable a statewide electronic health information exchange. Orion Health HIE was selected to provide the technology that will support NV-HIE services and programs that advance trusted information exchange for the coordination and continuity of health care for all Nevadans – anywhere, anytime.