State HIE
Read updates from ONC’s State HIE Program about how they are helping the nation transition to electronic health records by helping states increase connectivity and enable the secure flow of patient-centric information across the health care system—within and across states.
Latest Blog Posts
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Extending the Value of the Direct Project in Arkansas
Arkansas is rapidly becoming a leader in health information exchange. Since launching their statewide secure messaging tool (SHARE) in January 2012, Arkansas’s Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT) has registered more than 2,100 clinical and administrative staff to use it, with another 3,000 in queue to be fully on-boarded. SHARE uses the national standard for secure health information transport developed by ONC’s Direct Project. For a rural state that started their State HIE Cooperative Agreement with no existing exchange infrastructure and limited electronic health record (EHR) adoption, their progress is laudable.
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Direct Secure Messaging Makes Big Impact in Chicago Behavioral Health Community
Individuals with serious mental illnesses are 2.6 times more likely than the general public to develop cancer and nearly twice as likely to end up in an emergency or inpatient department with a serious injury, according to recent studies conducted at Johns Hopkins.
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Liberating Immunization Data: How Indiana Is Empowering Individuals to Actively Engage in Their Own Health Care
On July 23, Indiana announced the statewide rollout of MyVaxIndiana
, a web-based program that allows individuals to access their immunization records. ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator for Policy and Programs Judy Murphy and the State Health Commissioner Gregory Larkin attended the event as well as other representatives from the provider and patient community.