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Medicity Demonstrates Interoperability Expertise at IHE North America Connectathon 2012

Medicity once again validated its interoperability expertise with successful participation in this year’s IHE North America Connectathon – the nation’s largest interoperability testing event. During the event, we successfully performed more than 70 different test scenarios with 40 unique testing partners.

What does our success at the IHE Connectathon mean? That we are able to walk the walk – not just talk the talk – when it comes to implementing the entire gamut of standards-based health information exchange. It also proves our ability to integrate seamlessly within the workflow of EHR systems.Read the rest of this entry

Stability, Commitment Key for Health IT Vendors

The recent announcement of another vendor leaving the healthcare IT space (see Chilmark Research article) sheds interesting light on the future of HIE and healthcare IT in general. The change this news exemplifies – with large players withdrawing from the space – will lead most providers to conclude that stability and commitment are two of [...]

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Medicity Technology Enables First Direct Project Exchange across State Lines

The Ohio Health Information Partnership – a Medicity client and the state-designated HIE for Ohio – announced today that it is the first state in the nation to successfully send and receive health information across state lines using the ONC’s Direct Project secure messaging protocols in a production instance. A “production instance” means the exchange [...]

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The Future of Health Information Technology: The Role of HIEs

In our previous blog entry, we talked about the collaboration that is becoming possible with new “disruptive” technologies. This week, in our final blog focusing on Robert Connely’s predictions for the future of health IT, we explore how health information exchanges (HIEs) are at the forefront of creating technologies that can facilitate unprecedented levels of [...]

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The Future of Health Information Technology: The Rise of Collaboration and Community

Continuing our review of Robert Connely’s predictions for the future of HIT, we look at what he describes as “emerging technologies that allow collaborations across systems and settings.” The frontier that health IT is tackling today is community collaboration. For a long time the focus of health IT development has been on the “setting” – [...]

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