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Health Information Exchange

Alaska’s healthcare practitioners recognize that secure sharing of information through health information exchange has the potential to enhance health care delivery, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs. However, recent surveys have shown that many of Alaska’s healthcare organizations, especially smaller ones typical in Alaska, have been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) because of complexity and cost.

Fun Fact!

The Regional Extension Center Cooperative Agreement awards that were announced on April 6^th, 2010 brought the total REC coverage area of the United States to 98%!

More HIE News

HHS distributes $162M for health information exchange - Read Article from HIMMS's Government Health IT News

Officers

Paul Sherry, President
Jerome List, MD, Vice President
J. Patrick Luby, Secretary
Garth Hamblin, Treasurer

Board of Directors

Rod Betit, Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association
Jeff Davis, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska
Marilyn Kasmar, Alaska Primary Care Association
Thomas Nighswander, MD, Alaska eHealth Network
Al Parrish, Providence Health & Services in Alaska
Karen Perdue, University of Alaska
Alex Spector, Alaska VA Healthcare System
Jim Yarmon, Yarmon Investments

AeHN Board of Directors Meeting Update

June 16, 2010 from 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Meeting to be hosted by the Alaska VA

The next regular Board of Directors meeting will be held on May 16, 2010 at the Alaska VA, 1201 North Muldoon Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99504 at the Muldoon entrance to EAFB. We will be meeting in the Executive Conference Room 2D-184. The meeting will convene at 12:00 p.m. and adjourn at 3:00 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend.

For additional information, including our teleconference dial-in instructions, please send an email request to rebecca@ak-ehealth.org or theresa@ak-ehealth.org and we will add you to our meeting email notification list.