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Posted on: Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Anonymous Carefx The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange is using an integrated open systems platform from Carefx to provide real- time electronic data exchange for teleconsultation services, linking 24 northern Louisiana community providers with Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, La. The new health information exchange brings healthcare specialists at LSU to rural populations in areas of the state that otherwise would not have access to specialty care. The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal- based view of patient-centric data housed in disparate applications across multiple hospitals. Versus Technology Inc. The Cleveland Clinic is implementing the VISion Real-time Location Information... [read full story]