Health Record Sharing Program to Enter Three-State Trial

Health Record Sharing Program to Enter Three-State Trial 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

The CommonWell Health Alliance has announced that a trial of its plan for fluidly sharing patient health records between providers will commence in early 2014, with select acute and ambulatory care providers in Chicago, IL; Columbia, SC; and Elkin and Henderson, NC enlisted in the rollout. Around a dozen providers across these three regions will begin using an IT infrastructure set up by Alliance member RelayHealth to enroll patients in the record sharing service, to accurately identify patient information housed in cross-provider systems, and to send health records to partnering facilities.

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