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Arizona, Colorado health information exchanges merge
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization and Health Current in Arizona have completed a merger they initiated last year, they announced Tuesday. The two health information exchanges will now operate as a combined not-for-profit regional HIE dubbed Contexture. CORHIO and Health Current disclosed plans to merge in late 2020 and signed an affiliation agreement earlier this year. Contexture will serve roughly 1,800 healthcare organizations in Colorado and Arizona. Bringing CORHIO and Health Current together will allow Contexture to more efficiently deliver their existing HIE services, according to the two organizations. The new company also will establish an innovation team dedicated … Read more
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Health Information Exchanges Are Shifting Responsibility for Care Coordination From Patient to Provider
HIE event notification shows promise in solving healthcare challenges. Primary care physicians recognize the need for better coordination and welcome health information exchange (HIE) event notifications as a way to improve patient care, according to a new study from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers. The study, “Perceptions of event notification following discharge to improve geriatric care: qualitative interviews of care team members from a 2-site cluster randomized trial,” appeared online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). In a healthcare system … Read more
