Erlanger Health System, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based nonprofit academic teaching center, will implement of a regional health information exchange (HIE) using GE Healthcares eHealth Information Exchange to help the flow of patient information among Erlangers four hospitals and 13 outpatient facilities.

Americans want and expect connectivity and convenience from their doctors office, according to the second annual HealthCare Check-Up Survey from Intuit Health. Seventy-three percent of Americans surveyed would use a secure online communication solution to make it easier to get lab results, request appointments, pay medical bills and communicate with their doctors office.

Communications and IT company Harris has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing software engineering and enterprise support to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging System.

Oracle Health Information Exchange has expanded support for federal and global standards, such as the Connect architecture and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) specifications, the company announced last week at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla.

This is the fifth installment in CMIO's exclusive web series exploring the birth of Rhode Islands statewide health information exchange (HIE), featuring the leading stakeholders and clinical perspectives on its development. 

State health IT coordinators should adopt best practice models with common themes across states--including patient identification, provider directories, consent management, and privacy provisions and data standards, according to recent recommendations developed by College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) StateNet.

As the U.S. rolls out its largest ever investment in health IT, meaningful use promises to dramatically transform the delivery of care. However, until patient feedback takes the meaningful use stage, progress will remain slow, according to a February report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute

ORLANDO, Fla. Healthcare quality depends on accurate records, asserted Richard Taylor, MD, CMIO of Providence Health and Services in Portland, Ore., during the Feb. 23 educational session Health Information Exchange at the Bedside: Promise meets Reality at HIMSS11.