Iowa health-care providers will have a secure online system for accessing patients’ medical data by early next year, a state health official said today in a release. About 200 health-care providers and information technology professionals saw a demonstration of the Iowa Health Information Network (IHIN) during the eighth annual Iowa e-Health Summit held in Des Moines. Participants in the IHIN already can share secure messages, and soon will also have the capability to access patients’ electronic health records, diagnostic images and laboratory results from any other participating provider, said Kim Norby, executive director of Iowa e-Health, a state program that manages the network. Approximately one-half of physicians in Iowa have adopted electronic health records, including 19 percent who have earned incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for meeting “meaningful use” levels in delivering care.