Maine Launches Nation’s Largest Statewide Electronic Health Exchange
As policymakers in Washington debate how to reform the nation’s healthcare system, Maine has taken a major step toward transforming how care will be delivered to the state’s 1.3 million residents.
Physicians, hospital leaders, consumer advocates and public health officials gathered in Portland today to announce that Maine’s nonprofit HealthInfoNet network will “go live” this summer, making Maine the largest statewide electronic health information exchange (HIE) using clinical data. Only Delaware and Vermont have similar statewide exchanges in operation.
This announcement coincided with a visit to Maine by the Obama Administration’s top health information technology official, Dr. David Blumenthal, who was the keynote speaker at the statewide Hanley Leadership Forum today in Portland and then visited Maine Medical Center’s emergency department to see first hand how the new system will be used by medical care teams
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HealthInfoNet: Maine's statewide system for doctors and other health care providers to share information and improve your care.
Have you ever had this happen? Your doctor refers you to a
specialist or sends you for a test. When you arrive, you discover that
a copy of your medical records are not there. Not only is this frustrating,
this can lead to mistakes in your care.
Or, suppose you need to use a Maine emergency room. Will doctors
have your records so they can provide the best and safest care for you?
Until now, there hasn’t been a good way for health systems in
Maine to share information.
