SCHIEx: South Carolina Health Information Exchange

South Carolina
Health Information Exchange

SCHIEx SERVICES ARE FREE UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2012!
All providers are eligible to receive free SCHIEx services through December 31, 2012 as part of the SCHIEx Early Adopter Program. Select this link to enroll: SCHIEx Early Adopter Enrollment Application The Early Adopter Program builds on the SCHIEx Pilot Adopter Program. An interactive map of SCHIEx Pilot/Early Adopter participants is located at the bottom of the home page. more notices...

MSHUG Finalist
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SCHIEx News

The following are links to articles where SCHIEx has received recognition in the media:

2011

SCHIEx Joins the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange

October 4, 2011

On October 4, 2011 the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) received notification it had become the newest Exchange Participant in the Nationwide Health Information Network . The notification came following a rigorous application process that began in January of this year under the sponsorship of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA announced SCHIEx as a partner in its South Carolina Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Pilot initiative in September of this year. As a Nationwide Health Information Network Participant SCHIEx joins nineteen federal agencies and non-federal organizations at the forefront of health information exchange.

About the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange
Supported by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange, is a confederation of trusted entities, bound by mission and governance to securely exchange health information. Exchange participants support a common set of standards and specifications that enable the establishment of a secure, trusted, and interoperable connection among all participating Exchange organizations. Its mission is to improve patient care, streamline disability benefit claims, and improve public health reporting.

About the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx)
SCHIEx is a statewide technology and policy framework that enables participating health care providers using electronic health record (EHR) systems to exchange clinical information for treatment and public health and quality reporting purposes. SCHIEx complies with Nationwide Health Information Network specifications for secure data exchange and nationally recognized interoperability standards. This enables providers with systems that also comply with these standards to electronically share key clinical information to enhance coordination of patient care among providers, improve the quality and efficacy of care that a patient receives, improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and duplicative services, and enhance public health and disease detection and monitoring. SCHIEx is the designated statewide Exchange in the South Carolina ONC State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program.

VA Announces Expansion of Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record

September 8, 2011

Washington - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it will expand its pilot for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which enables sharing of Veterans' health records.

Read Full National News Release (PDF)

Charleston, S.C. - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a new pilot site in the Charleston area to improve the delivery of services to Veterans.

This pilot is part of the broader Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) initiative. VLER is a multi-faceted business and technology initiative that includes a portfolio of health, benefits, personnel, and administrative information sharing capabilities. The Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center will partner with Roper Health and South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) to exchange health information electronically for Veterans who participate in the pilot.

Read Full Local News Release (PDF)


2010

New Bright Ideas Recognizes Innovative Government

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, announced 173 government programs selected for its newly-created Bright Ideas program. In its inaugural year, Bright Ideas is designed to recognize and share creative government initiatives around the country with interested public sector, nonprofit, and academic communities.
Read "Bright Ideas" Article

A Strong State Role in HIE: Lessons from the South Carolina Health Information Exchange

Backed with fresh ARRA funding, SCHIEx blends business models with a strong state role and a belief that HIE is a public good.
Read "A Strong State Role" Article

Making "Enhanced Use" of Health Information

Recently passed health care reform legislation, together with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides an unprecedented opportunity to transform our current care delivery system into a high-value health care system. Making more effective, or "enhanced", use of the health information routinely collected in the delivery of patient care can improve both individual patient care and overall population health through better quality reporting and performance measurement, public health surveillance, and evidence development.
Read "Making 'Enhanced Use'" Article

Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Learning from SCHIEx, South Carolina's Statewide Distributed Data Integration

The Engelberg Center hosted a roundtable webinar on "SCHIEx: South Carolina's Distributed Data Integration Strategy." The roundtable featured presentations by Sue Veer, President and CEO of Carolina Health Centers, David Patterson, Section Chief of Health and Demographic Products, Office of Research and Statistics, South Carolina Budget and Control Board, and Vik Kheterpal, CEO of CareEvolution.
Read "Roundtable" Article

HHS Announces Additional $162 Million in Recovery Act Investment to Advance Widespread Meaningful Use of Health IT

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced awards to help states facilitate health information exchange and advance health information technology (health IT). Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, today's awards are part of the $2 billion effort to achieve widespread meaningful use of health IT and provide use of an electronic health record by every citizen by the year 2014. Every state and eligible territory has now been awarded funds under this program.
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Sebelius Awards More Than $9 Million To South Carolina To Test Innovations In Children's Health Care

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a grant of more than $9 million to South Carolina to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Read "Sebelius Awards" Article


2008

South Carolina Invests in e-Health Exchange to Improve Care, Cut Costs

South Carolina has established an electronic health information network for the state's 700,000 Medicaid beneficiaries. By the end of July, the state plans to add all Medicaid beneficiaries' medical records onto the network.
Read "South Carolina Invests" Article

S.C. Medicaid patients' records go online

Medical records belonging to state Medicaid patients have gone electronic. In July, the South Carolina Health Information Exchange made 800,000 medical histories of disabled and poor residents available to physicians, clinics and hospitals.
Read "S.C. Medicaid patients" Article

CareEvolution and SCHIEx Named Interoperability Finalists for 2008 Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) Healthcare Innovation Awards

CareEvolution, Inc. and the South Carolina Office of Research and Statistics are pleased to announce that the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) has been named a finalist in the Interoperability category by Microsoft and the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) 2008 Innovation Awards Program. The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards are presented annually to those healthcare organizations and their technology solutions partners who have best demonstrated industry leadership in using technology to achieve innovation excellence in containing costs and improving the quality of patient care.
Read "Microsoft Healthcare Users Group" Article


2006

CareEvolution, AccessNET Create South Carolina Health Info Exchange

AccessNET and CareEvolution have announced that they are to create a statewide health information exchange for over four million consumers in South Carolina.
Read "CareEvolution, AccessNET Create" Article