Jeff Loughlin

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HIE, REC Funding Drying Up Despite Need

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | May 13, 2014

Despite many physicians and hospitals now meaningfully using electronic health records, there's still a huge gap when it comes to these providers actually exchanging patient data. That reality has some regional extension centers taking up the work of health information exchange. The funding, however, is often hard to come by...

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Money Dries Up For HIEs, RECs

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | May 29, 2014

Although about 90 percent of New Hampshire's providers are using EHRs, "the use of that EHR and the amounts of structured data elements that are accurately being recorded is still a little bit disparate across the state," Loughlin said.  Bridging that gap with a statewide network is the NH HIE, which has signed up 60 organizations on multi-year contracts...

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Regional Extension Centers Aid States In Health Information Exchange, Quality Improvement

Susan D. Hall | Fierce Health IT | May 13, 2014

As REC funding dries up, organizations shift gears...As funding dries up for Regional Extension Centers, some are moving into a new market: Health information exchange and Meaningful Use support...

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