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Maine’s HealthInfoNet, a  nonprofit that operates the statewide health information exchange, has announced that all acute care hospitals are now under contract to connect to the query-based HIE. HealthInfoNet has 34 of the 38 hospitals connected already and expects the remaining four hospitals to connect by the end of the year. This will make Maine one of few states in the country to have all of its hospitals connected to a query-based HIE, officials say.Read More
Source: Bernie Monegain
Date: May 22, 2013
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has notified the Department of Defense that it will look for an electronic health record system available on the commercial market rather than develop its own based on the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA system.Read More
Source: Bernie Monegain
Date: May 22, 2013
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) has announced the winners of its personal health record portal challenge, with the designs in turn expected to inform the PHR NYeC is going to offer all New Yorkers in 2014. A Brooklyn-based health data and design startup called Mana Health won first prize and $15,000 for it’s PHR, followed by the NYC software company Applied Informatics’ iHealthNY PHR (awarded $7,500) and the Clifton, NJ-based public health software company RDE Systems’ MyHealthProfile (awarded $2,500).  Read More
Source: Anthony Brino
Date: May 16, 2013

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As more and more practices and hospitals are making patient portals available to their patients, providers of adolescent patients are encountering a major hurdle: how to handle confidential adolescent information.  READ MORE

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Greater Philadelphia is in the midst of setting up southeastern Pennsylvania's first health information exchange, after years of planning and discussions among health systems, hospitals, insurers and physician practices.Read More
Source: Anthony Brino
Date: May 16, 2013 e-mail to a friend
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic is notifying 17,300 patients of a data breach after it provided patient X-rays to a third-party vendor, which sold the films to an Ohio-based recycling company that harvested the silver from the X-rays.Read More
Source: Erin McCann
Date: May 15, 2013 e-mail to a friend
The number of U.S. physicians using electronic medical records has topped 90 percent, and nearly half of the doctors polled for a new Accenture survey say they now use health information exchange technology -- an uptick of 32 percent.Read More
Source: Mike Milliard
Date: May 15, 2013 e-mail to a friend

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