HHIE is reaching out to each organization’s point of contact (POC) to verify the organization’s active authorized Community Health Record (CHR) users. If you are a POC, please look for an email from HHIE with instructions on how to complete this... read the full article

Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange Offers Providers No-Cost Access to Patient Data
for Treatment Decisions for Maui Patients

HONOLULU – In response to the urgent need for quality medical care following the devastating wildfires on Maui, the Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange (HHIE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of patient care through the secure exchange of health information, is making its services more widely available. HIHIE is allowing providers on Maui and others throughout the state who are not currently HHIE subscribers and are serving impacted Maui residents to access and share health data at no cost for six months.

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Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange
Elects New Officers and Adds New Board Members

HONOLULU—The Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange (HHIE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of patient care through the secure exchange of health information between providers, recently elected new officers and welcomed new board members at its annual meeting held on August 16.

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By Kelsea Kukaua Medeiros –  Associate Editor, Pacific Business News

Hawaii Health Information Exchange, or HHIE, the state’s designated health information exchange nonprofit, is expanding its offerings to its health partners under a full-service program with 4medica, a California-based health care data management and software company.

In a Feb. 14 release, officials with HHIE said 4medica’s cloud-based Health Data Quality Platform found significant duplicate patient records in the Islands.

According to Francis Chan, CEO of HHIE, 20% of Hawaii’s total records are duplicate records, accounting for 1.4 million people. He told PBN that prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of duplicates was more manageable; however, with large influxes of Covid testing, the issue needed to be addressed further.

“4medica has proven they can resolve the differences down to 1%,” Chan told PBN.  

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Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange
expands video resources for healthcare providers

Honolulu, Hawai‘i—Over the past 15 years, Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange (HHIE), a nonprofit organization designated as the state’s official health information exchange, has developed and refined a robust, reliable and secure system to enable providers to seamlessly access and exchange patient data from Hawai’i’s major healthcare providers.

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