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The eHealth Exchange, formerly known as the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN or NwHIN), is an initiative for the exchange of healthcare information.It was developed under the auspices of the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), [1] and now managed by a non-profit industry coalition called Sequoia Project (formerly HealtheWay). [2]
eHealth, Inc., doing business as eHealthInsurance, is a publicly traded online marketplace for health insurance, organized in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. The company primarily provides plans related to Medicare such as prescription drug plans, Medigap , and Medicare Advantage plans.
The Idaho Health Data Exchange (IHDE) is the state designated Health Information Exchange (HIE) for Idaho. Health Information Exchange enables doctors, nurses, labs, and other medical providers to securely access their patient's electronic health information quickly, 24/7/365. IHDE is a non-profit 501(c)(6) company.
Private health exchanges predate the Affordable Care Act. One example of an early health care exchange is International Medical Exchange (IMX), a company venture financed in Louisville, Kentucky, by Standard Telephones and Cables, a large British technology company (now Nortel), to develop the exchange concept in the U.S. using on-line ...
Front-end exchange typically involves the patient, while back-end exchange does not. A common example of a rather simple front-end exchange is a patient sending a photo taken by mobile phone of a healing wound and sending it via email to the family doctor for control. Such an action may avoid the cost of an expensive visit to the hospital.
A Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO, pronounced rio), also called a Health Information Exchange Organization, is a multistakeholder organization created to facilitate a health information exchange (HIE) – the transfer of healthcare information electronically across organizations – among stakeholders of that region's healthcare system.
openEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records (EHRs) following a two-level modeling paradigm.
The publication of Personalised Health and Care 2020 by the Department of Health elaborated a new attempt to integrate patient records. [8] Its stated ambition was that every citizen would be able securely to access their health records online by 2018 and make real time data available to paramedics, doctors and nurses. [9]