Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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Experts Tout Blue Button As Enabling Information Exchange Between Medical Provider And Patient
Get a group of tech-savvy physicians and electronic medical records experts in a room, ask them about the way forward, and the subject of the Blue Button is sure to come up. Read More »
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Experts: National HIE Strategy Evolving
There's consensus that the architecture of a nationwide health information network (NwHIN) is shifting. Read More »
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Facilitating Interoperability
A Health Affairs report on health information interoperability by staffers of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provides a good enough summary of the situation. But it also is not news, and falls under the Bob Dylan Rule: You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. [...] Read More »
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FCC To Hire Healthcare Director, Step Up Health Efforts
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held a public briefing this week with its mHealth Task Force, which formed just this past June to work with various other healthcare professionals and technologists to create a report full of “concrete” next steps that the FCC (and other agencies) can take to facilitate the adoption and acceleration of mHealth in the United States. Read More »
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Feds Postpone Bid To Govern Health IT Network
Bowing to widespread industry objections to its proposals for governing the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has tabled the project, at least for now. Read More »
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Feds Release Latest Version Of Connect
The federal government has released its latest version of the open source Connect software platform for advanced health information exchange. Read More »
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Feds Resolve To Facilitate Health Data Exchange In 2013
Easing the way of a nationwide health information network will be a major priority for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in 2013, with a new funding opportunity announcement issued late last week paving the way. Read More »
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Five Healthcare IT Leaders Adopt Carequality Interoperability Framework
Carequality, an initiative of The Sequoia Project, today announced initial implementers of the Carequality Interoperability Framework released in December 2015. The companies are athenahealth®, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts. The five organizations have agreed to provide health information exchange services for their customers under the comprehensive Framework, which consists of legal terms, policy requirements, technical specifications, and governance processes. The Framework is an operationalization of the groundbreaking Principles of Trust to enable nationwide health information exchange. Read More »
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For Long-Term Care, Many HIE Miles To Go
Many of the nation’s largest long-term care providers are using electronic health records and providing their residents with Internet access, but few of them are sharing health information with outside entities, creating potential gaps in the care continuum for patients. Read More »
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Fueling Public HIE With Business Tools And Standards
Health information exchange technologies and business models among public health entities are in a state of flux. Yet the practice of HIE is going to be essential for public health departments to facilitate better care of individual and populations at a lower cost...
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GAO Makes Appointments to Health Information Technology Advisory Committee
Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), today announced 15 appointments to the new Health Information Technology (HIT) Advisory Committee. It is extremely valuable to have a range of perspectives and expertise in helping the government address challenges related to health information technology, “It is extremely valuable to have a range of perspectives and expertise in helping the government address challenges related to health information technology,” Dodaro said...
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Getting EHR Vendors Speaking the Same Language
So far, there is little financial incentive to support true interoperability, and if anything, many vendors see some level of proprietary distinction as desirable – creating barriers to customer defection.
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Getting EHR Vendors Speaking the Same Language
When it comes to the development of truly interoperable EHRs, vendors, including myself, face a real quandary. Most EHR vendors tout an organizational mission statement focused on improving healthcare and helping patients and providers, and to the best of their ability operate accordingly. Read More »
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GOP Lawmakers Urge Halt On Meaningful-Use Payments
HHS should suspend incentive payments to providers in the electronic health-records program and delay penalties to those that do not integrate health IT until the federal department can define clear, interoperable standards, House Republican leaders suggested Thursday in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Read More »
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Governor O'Malley Joins Open Health IT Company, Amida Technology Solutions, as Advisor
Amida Technology Solutions, a Maryland-based open source software company, today announced the addition of former Governor Martin J. O’Malley as an Advisor. O’Malley joins distinguished public-sector leaders Michèle Flournoy, General John R. Allen, Sonal Shah, and Scott Gould in guiding Amida in the creation of software and services that will help NGOs, state and local governments, and private companies to solve their most complex data issues. Read More »
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