SCHIEx In the News

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

2010

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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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 & 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.
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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.
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