Our new client, Rio Grande Valley Health Information Exchange (RGV HIE), is launching an initiative to support health data sharing among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers and hospitals in Texas.

Though our software development and integration work doesn't usually give us direct contact with providers and patients, we never forget that those are the people we're really working for. 

SCL has connected its Epic clinical data repository with Salesforce Service Cloud, enabling personalized care for cardiac outpatients.

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) enable data sharing among neighboring healthcare organizations such as hospitals, labs, pharmacies and ambulatory practices and clinics. While the payer community largely sat on the sidelines in the early years of the HIE movement, they have recently become much more important players in this space.

I recently attended both the New Jersey and New York HIMSS annual conferences. Here are the discussions I found most notable.