Gwen Bondi, Program Manager of Palliative Care at Visiting Nurse Service of Northeastern New York Advance care planning (ACP) could dramatically improve quality of care while lowering healthcare costs. The…

In the emergency department (ED), it’s well known that speed affects patient care—and that includes rapid data retrieval. Recently, a team from the University of Michigan set out to study…

Valerie Grey, Executive Director at NYeC The vision is nothing if not ambitious: “a dramatically transformed healthcare system where health information exchange is universally used as a tool to make…

Prahalad Rangan, Lili Guo and Seth Cagle work to eliminate duplicate data. The most recent improvement to the Hixny health information exchange (HIE) not only streamlines the user experience, but…

Image by Petr Strnad, YouWorkForThem The providers at Whitney M. Young, Jr. Health Services and Koinonia Primary Care, both long time Hixny members, are always on the lookout for innovative…

Hixny is pleased to announce the award of a grant from New York state for a project called Wire Once that will significantly accelerate the quality, connectivity and interoperability of…

One of the most challenging findings from our user survey last spring, is that 62 percent of respondents said their primary way of obtaining patient information from another provider or facility…

If you’ve ever been in a hospital emergency room (ER), you know they’re notorious for long wait times. Why the long waits? There are lots of reasons that can vary…

The power and speed of electronic health records It wasn’t long ago that sharing a patient’s medical information between healthcare providers was a manual process that could take days to…

A few weeks ago, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and the Department of Health (DOH) requested proposals for the use of about $3 million in excess budgeted funds. While…