Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology said today he intends to “harmonize” certified electronic health records standards within the National Health Information Network (NHIN).
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“California eHealth Collaborative announced today that five community-based health information exchange (HIE) projects in California successfully tested the exchange of clinical health information to improve patient care.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Sun Microsystems’ open-source software is one of the key components of the NHIN-Connect, the gateway that has enabled multiple federal agencies and private-public organizations to communicate across platforms.
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“The Federal Health Architecture project released into the public domain the code for Connect, a software gateway that will let organizations outside the federal government share health information via the National Health Information Network.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“IBM, the U.S. Social Security Administration and MedVirginia, Virginia’s regional health information organization, have launched an electronic records exchange system to help speed the process of granting disability benefits.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has released information online to help organizations participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network. (NHIN).
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“Last week, a handful of participants began the first practical data exchange of the national health information network (NHIN), a move that gains significance in the wake of newly-passed $20 billion health IT stimulus plan.
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“The Nationwide Health Information Network will get its first real-world test early next year when the Social Security Administration begins using it to access electronic medical records held by a private health information exchange, NHIN planners and SSA officials said Dec 16.”
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John Pulley, Government Health IT, 17 December 2008
“The online publication, NextGov has a good article that further outlines the new privacy framework that Sec. Leavitt announced on Monday during the NHIN event being held in DC. Article is the best one I have seen yet on the subject (all the HIT rags have been pretty abysmal covering this announcement).”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 17 December 2008
“A project involving 12 European countries and supported by the European Commission is taking the lead in ensuring healthcare interoperability in Europe.
The project is akin to the building of a nationwide health information network, or NHIN, that is under way in the United States.
Europe has launched the European Patient Smart Open Services (epSOS) ‘large scale pilot’ on interoperability of national e-health systems, involving 12 EU countries. It is set to run for three years.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News.eu, 6 October 2008
“Investigators from the Regenstrief Institute have led a demonstration of how health information exchange technologies developed and tested regionally can be used to securely share patient information across the nation during an emergency. This work builds on decades of experience in medical informatics and comes less than a year after the Indiana University School of Medicine received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop a trial implementation of a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).”
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EurekAlert, 23 September 2008
“MedPlus has completed a test of patient data sharing among health information exchanges as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network’s trial implementations core content test.”
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Health Data Management, 19 September 2008
“Congress had asked the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department to use a common electronic health record (EHR) system because their respective systems, AHLTA (Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application) and VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture), were not interoperable.”
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Patty Enrado, NHIN Watch, 18 August 2008
“Back at the beginning of the year, I did a Top Ten Predictions post where one of the predictions was the continued struggles of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and the steady rise of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Since much of the ballyhooed National Health Information Network (NHIN) is built upon the premise of RHIOs and their success, the NHIN is basically dead in the water.”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 13 August 2008
“In mid-June, the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation was awarded $334,268 from a $50 million charitable investment fund California state regulators mandated from PacifiCare Health Systems when it merged in 2005 with UnitedHealth Group.
The funds will enable the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and the Foundation, the fundraising arm of the hospital, to continue their ongoing implementation of a community-wide electronic health record system (EHR).”
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Patty Enrado, NHINWatch, 2 July 2008
“Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard teaching hospital and major medical institution based in Boston, is connecting four diverse, local physician offices to its community electronic health record (EHR) infrastructure and anticipates data sharing among the small offices by August.
Through the program, 300 doctors in 150 practices in the New England region will have the capability to share protected health information by 2010 and within five years all clinicians will be on EHRs, said John Halamka, MD, CIO of BIDMC and CIO of Harvard Medical Center.”
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Patty Enrado, NHINWatch, 16 June 2008
“Federal agencies’ shared connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network will be open, flexible and extensible — characteristics that could make it useful to organizations outside the federal government in the future, Federal Health Architecture officials told a conference audience here yesterday.”
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Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT, 1 May 2008
“Providers are actively discussing participation, if they aren’t already participating, in health information exchanges (HIEs), according to Marc Holland, program director of provider research for Health Industry Insights (HII).”
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Patty Enrado, NHIN Watch, 15 April 2008
“Who is the federal government calling on to breathe life into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)? Google and Microsoft.”
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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, e-CareManegement Blog, 1 April 2008
“When HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was passed in 1996, outlining how government and healthcare providers can use our personal health information without our consent, most of us didn’t hear of the ramifications. As the government works to create a national electronic health information network (NHIN) and enact policies for how the government and third party interests can collect, use and sell our personal health information without our consent, few of us are hearing of those ramifications, either. This week brought major developments in the government’s push for a national health information database that we will want to hear about. It’s been a busy week!”
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Sandy Szwarc, Junkfood Science, 8 December 2007
