HealtheConnections, a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in Central New York, has enlisted Axolotl Image Exchange service to offer access to diagnostic medical images in its array of available clinical  information.

Organizations interested in participating in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) must be prepared for system scrutiny and a barrage of interoperability testing before any information can be exchanged, said Holt Anderson, executive director of the North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, during a June 17 webinar.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Federal Health Architecture Program has released CONNECT 3.2, an open source software and community promoting IT interoperability in the U.S. healthcare system.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is conducting a review of governance models for a governance body to administer the processes for policy and standards adoption for the Identity Ecosystem Framework in accordance with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

BOSTONBuilding an health information exchange (HIE) and integrating to an HIE is very different from an EHR implementation, said Ben Stein, MD, president and CEO of the Long Island Patient Information eXchange (LIPIX) during a presentation entitled Health Information Exchange: How to Play, What to Gain at the CMIO Summit Clinical IT Leadership Forum on June 10.

The Minnesota Department of Health has certified Ability Network as the state's first Health Data Intermediary (HDI), and charged it with providing the infrastructure to streamline the exchange of healthcare data for the benefit of patients, providers and payers.

WASHINGTON, D.C.Just as PACS liberated studies from their confinement to hard film, so CDs and cloud computing are enabling image sharing across institutions, communities and beyond. But as the cloud buzz grows louder, a group of presenters at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) argued on Thursday that the technology may be greenand ultimately inferior to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative.

St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital, an 864-bed tertiary care teaching institution located in Houston, is expanding its use of GE Healthcare Performance Solutions Patient Care Capacity Management tool.