A May 10 conference call on health information exchange had more than 1,000 registered callers, which Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator of health IT, said indicated the high level of interest in the topic.

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) issued a Request for Information last year to gather public input on a potential regulatory approach for validating organizations as legitimate participants in the Nationwide Health Information Network. On May 3, the office released the Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange.

DENVER, April 25, 2013 -- South Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records systems of its 118 primary care providers to the CORHIO health information exchange (HIE).

NANUET, N.Y., April 25, 2013 -- iMedicor (OTC: VMCI) today announced it has launched its flagship product, iMedicor SocialHIE, one of the first online social/professional networks to be coupled with a Health Information Exchange (HIE), for Physicians' Alliance of America (PAA), an organization comprising more than 34,000 physician members representing over 7,100 member practices of all sizes and specialties throughout the United States. iMedicor SocialHIE will enable PAA members to exchange patient-specific healthcare information through the Internet with other PAA members, as well as non-PAA members they invite into their communities, all within a HIPAA-compliant environment.

Calling it an “unprecedented licensing agreement,” the medical research organization Regenstrief Institute announced on April 19 that it is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC) and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.

TAMPA, Fla., April 17, 2013 -- HealthPlan Services (HPS), the nation's leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, announced today the launch of MyConsumerLink(SM), a comprehensive, turn-key private exchange marketplace designed to help agents and affinity groups retain and grow business. As consumers begin to take ownership of health plan purchases, industry estimates suggest that as many as 45 million people will use public and private exchanges by 2020.

NANUET, N.Y., April 11, 2013 -- iMedicor (OTC: VMCI) today announced that it had been chosen by iHealthTrust, a Houston-based Federally funded Health Information Exchange (HIE) serving a market of some 12,000 physicians and hospitals in the Houston and Gulf coast regions, to provide them with secure communications services via the iMedicor SocialHIE platform.iMedicor's marketing partner, Galaxy Health Network, a managed care provider organization comprising 400,000 physicians, 2,700 medical centers and 47,000 ancillary care facilities nationwide, will support the iMedicor program via outreach services to Galaxy members in the Houston/Gulf Coast region.

From exchange of behavioral data to states linking their exchange to grants designed to accelerate information exchange, health information exchange (HIE) has had another busy month.