A few months ago, I shared the story of HEALTHeLINK, an HIE serving Western New York. At the time, HEALTHeLINK was announcing that it had managed to obtain 1...
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One of the big obstacles to the free exchange of health data is obtaining patient consent to share that data. It’s all well and good if we can bring exchange...
BUFFALO, NY – HEALTHeLINK, Western New York’s clinical information exchange, has reached one million uniquely consented patients. Approximately 95% of those...
Parents must sign consent for physicians to get access BUFFALO, NEW YORK – As a result of a change in New York State policy, participating providers can now...
You can put an HIE in place, but you can’t make doctors drink. That fractured moral was demonstrated recently by an HIE in Western New York, which found...
A Western New York based program has begun testing whether patients can “meaningfully consent” to exchange of their medical data after going over a...
No doubt many small EHR companies have been looking at themselves in the mirror long and hard and asking themselves how they’re going to survive this...