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In Raleigh, North Carolina’s HIE Moves Forward—under a State Government Mandate

Healthcare Informatics: Many in U.S. healthcare are under the impression that health information exchanges (HIEs) are, as a group, stumbling these days, given the petering out of federal and state grant funding to support HIE development in the past couple of years. And yet, in many cases, that impression couldn’t be further from the truth. Indeed, there are a number of statewide HIEs that are doing very well, and proving themselves in a broad number of areas.

One HIE organization that is moving forward with the robust backing of its state government is the North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority (NC HIEA), located in Raleigh, the state’s capital. In fact, the NC HIEA is operating under a direct mandate from the state government of North Carolina.

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