Meaningful Use Final, Certification, EHR: 3 concepts spilled about these past 18 months like over-buttered popcorn across a theatre’s gooey floor. Slippery. Sticky. Messy. Repulsively Intriguing.

Somewhat ignored in this regulatory skein has been Health Information Exchanges, HIE’s. Critical to healthcare data transfer between disparate applications, locations, and practices, HIE’s have been expanding functionality and gaining ever more traction across the healthcare industry even as the sky “falls” following ARRA.

So what’s the latest on HIE? The following links give a rather auspicious glimpse of this part of the MU “cataclysm.”

Washington-based eHealthCare Initiatives’ 2010 HIE survey was released this week and can be found here.

CMIO has done a fine job of parsing the survey numbers. The article can be found here.