RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE) announced today that it has formed a partnership with Prime Healthcare Services that will link patient health information to all of Prime HealthCare Services’ hospitals across the country. Prime HealthCare Services brings an additional twenty-three (23) Hospitals across five (5) states including fourteen (14) in California to IEHIE’s existing population of hospitals, providers and health plans. IEHIE offers an enhanced Health Information Exchange (HIE) service, which allows doctors, clinics, hospitals and other healthcare providers to electronically review and access medical records, resulting in timely, safer and improved quality of healthcare for patients, particularly those in underserved and disadvantaged populations.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2013 -- The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) announced today that Mana Health, a New York City-based Health IT start-up, was awarded the vendor contract to build the Patient Portal for New Yorkers. The portal is a website through which New Yorkers will be able to access their healthcare records safely and securely online.

Surescripts is adding 19 state health information exchanges (HIEs) and health information service providers (HISPs) to its network. The new connections will facilitate clinical data sharing across local and regional care communities for improved care coordination, according to its Aug. 13 announcement. The network supports Direct and other security standards and initiatives.

After a tornado struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 and decimated the Moore Medical Center, the building and old rollers for medical records laid in tatters but “we never lost one ounce of data,” said Brian Yeaman, MD, CMIO, Norman Regional Health System, and medical director of SMRTNET, during a Aug. 13 National eHealth Collaborative webinar.

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Aug. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DataMotion (www.datamotion.com), an innovative health information service provider (HISP) with more than 14 years of experience in secure data delivery, today announced that East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) has selected its DataMotion Direct secure messaging service. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT presented their strategy to accelerate health information exchange during an Aug. 7 webinar.

Over the past few weeks, several announcements about interconnectivity within and between states have emerged that indicate expanding information exchange capabilities. However, the call for standards continues to be heard.

Health information exchanges in 10 states entered into an agreement to use the federally developed Direct clinical messaging protocol to help their members transmit and receive patient medical records in the event of a disaster.