HIE Guidance from State of Missouri Related to COVID-19 The MO Dpt. of Social Services has released the following guidance and recommendations for health information exchange participants and networks to support COVID-19 response efforts. Missouri’s Health Information Networks (HIN) have been working closely with the State of Missouri and key partners to enhance health information […]
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MO HealthNet receives funds to support electronic records programs By News Tribune staff Feb. 22 2020 A federal program is giving Missouri’s Medicaid program $9.3 million to support implementation of a program that is intended to help multiple health care providers share patient information.
MHD Announces Funding For Hospitals Connecting To HIEs Staff Contact: Brian Kinkade or Rich Kliethermes The MO HealthNet Division announced the availability of funding to underwrite a portion of the connection costs for certain hospitals to join a health information exchange. Qualifying hospitals are those that have received at least one electronic health record incentive payment and are not actively engaged with […]
Study: HIE Reduces Unplanned Hospital Readmissions, ED Visits in Western NY February 17th, 2020 By: Rajiv Leventhal Practices that effectively utilize and integrate health information exchange (HIE) data into their daily workflow were able to reduce the rate of unplanned hospital readmissions and the rate of emergency department (ED) visits, according to new research. Click […]
MHC Announces Go-Live with the DoD Missouri Health Connection and the Department of Defense go-live effective February 14, 2020. Columbia, MO — February 14, 2020 — Missouri Health Connection (MHC), the Midwest health information exchange (HIE), proudly announces that its connection to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) went live today. MHC Participants and the […]
20 hospital and health system chief digital officers to know | 2020 Debe Gash, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Saint Luke’s Health System (Kansas City, Mo.) and MHC board member, was selected to Becker’s Hospital Review’s 20 hospital and health system chief digital officers to know | 2020. This recognition is for […]
HIEs Increasingly Connecting With Community, Social Service Organizations, Survey Finds SHIEC’s first annual survey of HIEs reveals progress is being made Click here to read full article by Rajiv Leventhal via HCInnovationGroup.com
New HIE Survey Results Show Significant Interoperable Health Data and Robust Link Between Community HIEs and Community and Social Service Organizations Article by Dennis Daily via mobilehealthtimes.com David Kendrick, MD, SHIEC Board Member presented survey data from first national HIE survey at the ONC Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020 Community health […]
Opt-In Health Information Exchange Drive Administrative Burden January 20, 2020 States with opt-in policies were 7.8 percent more likely to experience regulatory health information exchange barriers Click here to read article by Christopher Jason via EHR Intelligence
