"Sustainability" is not a word typically associated with health information exchange (HIE). Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect reveals its strategies for building an HIE sustainable through expansion and continuum-wide provider inclusion.

This session demonstrates how a regional health information organization (RHIO) provides measurable value by assembling a comprehensive medication list delivered at the point of care. The data reveals quality, safety and efficiency improvements.

Transaction standards were first written into HIPAA legislation in 2000 to create standardized routes for healthcare organizations to exchange financial and administrative data, but they left too much room for interpretation and the result has been chaotic, according to a Jan. 17 article in the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.

In a complex, unfamiliar frontier where healthcare competitors must become partners, many providers face the enormous pressure of working with developing health information exchange (HIE) solutions in order to meet meaningful use requirements.

Learn the trends, clinical results and lessons from a physician organization using health information exchange to improve care coordination and quality management through clinical decision support, advanced quality measures and EMR interoperability.

Discussion on the experience gained during the procurement, implementation, and deployment of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution for the state of Florida, including policy, consent, technical implementation and sustainability considerations.

This year, at its annual conference, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) includes a day-long symposium on health information exchange (HIE) entitled, HIE: The Year of Implementation, Collaboration & Beyond, a title that echoes the declaration Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for Health IT, made recently: 2012 is the year that health IT truly comes of age.

Radiology Limited will install Merge's suite of radiology systems at its nine imaging centers across southern Arizona.