Collaboration looks to boost HIE across state lines

Government Health IT: A fistful of healthcare groups came together on Monday to tackle the immediate challenges of data exchange across state lines.

By partnering with HIMSS and IHE USA, the Interoperability Workgroup, or IWG, aims to bolster its testing and certification program for electronic health record and health information exchange vendors, helping ensure more reliable transfer of data within and across organizational and state boundaries. IWG has also pulled in Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based ICSA Labs as its testing and certification body.

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