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Welcome to NeHII

NeHII is leading the effort to create a secure, online, web-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) designed to serve the state of Nebraska.  Improved delivery of health care information and reduced health care costs are good for all citizens of Nebraska. The state has a proud tradition and reputation of providing the finest health care possible to its citizens. The HIE will help health care providers take health care to the next level.

Over the next few years the HIE will be rolled out across the state and ultimately will become part of a planned Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). This partnership will again improve the level of health care for Nebraska as well as for the Nation as a whole.

Best of all, these information exchanges will help improve the quality of health care and control the rapidly increasing cost of health care.

The mission, vision, and goals of NeHII provide the ideals and constructs for development of the HIE.

NeHII Sponors PDMP CEU Program

Alegent Health, COPIC and NeHII will be sponsoring a PDMP CEU program on October 8th, 2012 at the McAuley Center on Alegent Health's campus.  The PDMP CEU program's goal is to provide physicians with tools to identify and manage potential drug seekers in the clinic and ED settings.  The program objectives are:

  • Educate providers about the drug seeking community from both the addicted individuals to the distributors perspectives
  • Create awareness of legal aspects of the problem from denial of care to potential fraudulent prescribing activities
  • Educate providers about the use of technical applications using health information exchange via NeHII to obtain more complete medication histories
  • Share messaging techniques for those individuals that have opted out of NeHII that are tailored to the particular settings (ED vs. Ambulatory) to manage the potential drug seeker efficiently and effectively
  • Outline processes to discourage drug seekers to seek care at your particular facility

 

NeHII Hires Deb Bass

NeHII, Inc. Announces the Hiring of Deb Bass as the Executive Director

Omaha, NE - The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Nebraska's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), announced today that Deb Bass has been formally hired as Executive Director. Her duties as a full-time employee of NeHII will begin August 1, 2012. Previously, Deb had served in a number of roles at Bass & Associates, Inc. an information technology consulting company located in Omaha, NE, that she helped to found in 1993 and assumed the role of President and CEO in 2000. She has been a contracted resource to NeHII since 2008.

 

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PRESS RELEASE! Coventry Health Care of Nebraska Joins NeHII

Omaha, Neb., - Coventry Health Care of Nebraska recently joined hospitals, healthcare providers and payers throughout the state as a member of the statewide health information exchange known as Nebraska Health Information Initiative, or "NeHII”.

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PRESS RELEASE! Avera Creighton Hospital Joins NeHII

Creighton, Neb., - Avera Creighton Hospital recently joined hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the state as a member of the statewide health information exchange known as Nebraska Health Information Initiative, or "NeHII”.

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PRESS RELEASE! Missouri Kansas and Nebraska Connect via Direct Secured Messaging

Columbia, MO, - The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), and Missouri Health Connection (MHC) today announced they are now connected and able to exchange Direct secure messages across state lines.

Nebraska Kansas and Missouri Connect via Direct Messaging

PRESS RELEASE! Avera St. Anthony's Hospital Joins NeHII

O'Neill, Neb., - Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital recently joined hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the state as a member of the statewide health information exchange known as Nebraska Health Information Initiative, or "NeHII”..

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PRESS RELEASE! Columbus Community Hospital Joins NeHII

Columbus, Neb., - Columbus Community Hospital recently joined hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the state as a member of the statewide health information exchange known as Nebraska Health Information Initiative, or "NeHII".

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New! Hospital Testimonials Now Available

Critical Access Hospital implementations are moving forward.  Sidney Regional Medical Center and Great Plains Regional Medical Center have submitted testimonials on the implementation process.

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PRESS RELEASE! The Nebraska Health Information Exchange (NeHII, Inc.) Holds Fourth Annual Meeting in Gering, NE

Gering, Neb., - The NeHII Annual Meeting was held on July 24th at the Gering Civic Center in Gering, NE.  The meeting, hosted by Dr. Todd Sorenson, CEO of Regional West Medical Center, drew great interest from across the region with more than 60 attendees from Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska.

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Regional West Physicians Clinic Laboratory Joins NeHII - Nebraska Health Information Exchange

Scottsbluff, Neb., - Regional West Health Services recently joined hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the state as a member of the new statewide health information exchange known as Nebraska Health Information Initiative, or "NeHII" (pronounced knee-high).

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Nebraska Doctors Participating in NeHII Are Now Sharing Patient Immunization Information with Nebraska State Immunization Information System

Omaha, NE - The Nebraska Health Information Intiative (NeHII), Nebraska's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) announced today that physicians participating in the exchange will have access to electronically share patient immunization information to NESIIS, the Nebraska State Immunization Information System.

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