CentraState Healthcare System, a nonprofit community health organization in Freehold, N.J., selected health information exchange (HIE) software developer MobileMD to provide HIE services to its physicians and offices, nursing homes, imaging centers, laboratories and other clinicians within its medical community.

Nonprofit organization Michigan Health Connect will adopt  Medicitys health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure for its next stage of HIE development.

More clinical data from more information systems are flowing into healthcare organizations from additional sources in the continuum of care. With data-handling standards for EHRs and health information exchanges (HIEs) in the works, and expanding federal mandates for reportingis the definition of clinical information itself changing? That might seem like an academic question, until you consider the national conversations about cumulative radiation dosage, pain management and the expanding base of evidence being called into use at the point of care.

Saint Johns Health System and St.Vincent Jennings Hospitals have joined the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE). The two hospitals are now connected through their participation in IHIEs DOCS4DOCS service.

Floridas Agency for Health Care Administration has selected Harris Healthcare Solutions to implement a statewide health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure that will improve delivery and coordination of healthcare.

Two of the major HIE news stories of the year were acquisitions. In August, UnitedHealth Groups Ingenix Division bought Axolotl. Then, earlier this month, Aetna announced its acquisition of Medicity. Since these occurences, there has been a fair amount of punditry about what this might mean for the future of HIEs as we know them.

Health information exchange must occur within a system first. North York General Hospital, a multi-site regional teaching hospital serving north-central Toronto and southern York, Ontario, recently attained Stage 5 of the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model, thanks in large part to its three-year effort to integrate evidence-based order sets into its CPOE system.

From its inception nearly 20 years ago as a Community Health Information Network on the claims and remittance side of healthcare, the Utah Health Information Network has emerged to become the states designated health information exchange (HIE). Now, UHIN is about to launch a pilot program to connect health care providers in the Moab, Utah region with the Department of Veterans Affairs.