Baylor HealthCare System in Dallas has created an enterprise health information exchange (HIE) to improve access to patient information across the care community.

Twelve new hospitals have been connected to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization s health information exchange (HIE) network.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released a request for information to search for qualified vendors capable of meeting VAs requirement to provide a national mobile device management tool.

An alternative to a bevy of paperwork is attractive. That was partly the case when the Minnesota Health Information Exchange (MN HIE) decided to close up shop and consolidate its business operations into the Duluth, Minn.-based Community Health Information Collaborative (CHIC) and its HIE offering, HIE-Bridge, this summer. Yet, as history goes, to understand the present, one must understand the past.

The speed of technology moves can be mind-blowing. Its seems just yesterday that I had a flip-phone in my pocket with a green screen. Flash-forward to this past weekend and I find myself on a bus departing from New York City bathing in the dim glow of smartphones, laptops, tablets and Kindles.

Since 2007, states have improved interoperability, integration and data exchange functionality as resources have allowed; however, the need to exchange information with external partners is escalating, according to an article in the Oct. 21 edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Orion Health and Microsoft have signed two agreements in the field of e-health. In Asia Pacific, wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific, has signed an agreement to purchase Microsofts hospital information system (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. The two parties also have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their intent to co-market their health information exchange (HIE) and data aggregation and analysis productsOrion Health HIE and Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence Systemto the public and private HIE and integrated delivery network markets.

Fourteen critical access hospitals have joined the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Nebraska's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) within the past month.