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"I am encouraged by and excited about this type of collaboration, which has the potential to advance real-world pilots, implementation and feedback on standards for health information exchange. The results of this kind of initiative can help us advance health IT nationwide.”
Doug Fridsma, Director of the Office of Standards & Interoperability at the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology
EHR/HIE Interoperability Work Group HIE Exemplar Governance Grant RFP
Request for Proposals: EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup HIE Exemplar Governance Grant RFP Release Date: 4/09/2013 Proposals Due: 4/17/2013 (4:00pm EDT) Email all Correspondence to: rfpcontact@nyehealth.org Download the RFP: Click Here NYeC responded to the RFP for the Exemplar HIE Governance Program created by ONC on behalf of the EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup. The Exemplar HIE Governanc…
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Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Awards the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup Exemplar HIE Governance Program Cooperative Agreement
Program will facilitate workgroup’s efforts to further test, implement, and advance interoperability standards across vendors and states New York, NY (April 4, 2013) - The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) today announced that it has been awarded a cooperative agreement by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to participate in the Exemplar HIE Govern…
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HEALTH IT TESTING PROGRAM WILL ENABLE HEALTH DATA SHARING FOR MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. PATIENTS AND THEIR PROVIDERS
Public-Private Partnership Selects CCHIT as Compliance Testing Body NEW YORK – October 11, 2012 – More than half the U.S. population and their health care providers could soon have access to health data shared across multiple states and systems. A public-private partnership of states, public agencies, federally-funded health information exchanges (HIEs) and health information technology (HIT) com…
EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup-Healtheway-CCHIT Compliance Testing Body Announcement Fact Sheet
1. What is the problem the coalition is trying to solve with a compliance testing program? A lack of a uniform set of implementation-level standards, testing specifications and testing policies, currently requires that a custom interface be negotiated and developed from each electronic health record (EHR) to each health information exchange (HIE) and between HIEs. The development of the in…
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10 States Now Unified to Standardize Health Data Interoperability
Workgroup now consists of 10 states and 26 vendors agreeing to standard specifications, best practices to enable easy sharing of electronic records New York, NY – The effort to eliminate barriers to sharing electronic health records (EHRs) continues to pick up momentum, with 10 states and 26 vendors now signed on to create standard specifications to allow “out of the box” connectivity between he…
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Multiple States and Vendors Agree On Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications
New York, NY – A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records (EHRs) today issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners. The specifications are now available for the public to view at www.interopwg.org. The objective of th…
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EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup Releases Technical Specifications
New York, NY –The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup released its initial technical specifications Nov. 8, 2011. The specifications aim to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other entities involved in communicating patient health information. The specifications can be downloaded from the group’s website: www.interopwg.org. This workgroup …
EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup agrees on connectivity specs
NEW YORK – A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records have issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between providers, health information exchanges and other data-sharing partners. Defining “plug and play” connections between electronic health records and health information exchanges, the EHR/HIE Interoperabili…
The EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup — Potentially Earth-Shattering
New York, NY – Yesterday’s announcement of “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications” by the EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup (EHR|HIE WG) is potentially earth-shattering. My mom would not know what I mean by “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications,” so I’ll try to write this in plain English. Who Are These Guys? The EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup The workgroup consists…
Coalition defines EHR to HIE data sharing standards
New York, NY – A band of U.S. states and technology vendors came together to create technical specifications that enable EHRs to feed into HIEs. The specifications, agreed upon Tuesday, “leverage existing HL7 standards, technical frameworks from IHE International, and HIE implementations,” the group explained in a prepared statement. [Related: 4 PHI tips for HIEs. See also: The 5 roadblocks HIE…
The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup
New York, NY – Today, the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, originally formed by the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), will announce the collaborative work of seven states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon), eight EHR vendors (Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, Greenway, McKesson Physician Practice Solutions, NextGen Healthcare, Sage, and Siem…