Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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San Diego Beacon Cites Success In Linking Paramedics To Hospital EMRs
Paramedics can transmit EKGs ahead to cardiologists, who can marshal resources for the patient even before the ambulance arrives, thanks to technology from the San Diego Beacon Health Information Exchange. Read More »
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Sen. Hatch Calls For Pausing Meaningful Use Program
Trying to soften the sting of his remarks by iterating that he does not want to see progress stalled on health IT adoption, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch explained that the federal government cannot afford to spend money on programs that are not working. Read More »
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Skilled Nursing Facilities Lag Acute Care Settings in EHR, HIE Use
The first nationally representative survey on electronic health record adoption and health information exchange among skilled nursing facilities has found that they are lagging behind acute care settings. While data released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shows that most SNFs (64 percent) used EHRs to manage patient health information last year and a fifth of facilities (18 percent) used both an EHR and a state or regional health information organization (HIO), a HIT gap persists with their acute care counterparts...
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Small Massachusetts HIT Conference Returns to Big Issues in Health Care
The big achievement in Massachusetts, going into the conference today, was a recent agreement between the state's major insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the 800-pound gorilla of the state's health care market, Partners HealthCare System. Read More »
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SMART On The Agenda At AMIA 2012
The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium begins today in Chicago, where it is currently “Informatics Week” as declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Read More »
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Some In Canada Longing For ONC-Esque Policies, Researcher Says
The conclusion of a recent study on Canadian and U.S. health IT policy might’ve come from the department of obvious: “successful health information exchange depends on policies that set clear goals and outline intended effects of HIT implementation without being overly prescriptive, and defines frameworks for guiding policy improvement in a continual and systematic manner,” the authors wrote in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Read More »
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Stage Set For Big Interoperability Push
The push for meaningful use Stage 3 has reached a point where a confluence of power structures are ready for more breakthroughs – hence, the impetus for collaboration among IHE USA, ONC and S&I Framework, officials from these groups say. Read More »
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State HIEs Prep For Disaster Recovery
Direct protocol to enable data exchange among providers caring for patients displaced from their homes Read More »
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State-wide Health Information Exchange (HIE) Implementation Activities
Stay abreast of the latest status of the State Health Information Exchanges (SHIE) Program, as reported on the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) web site. They have posted the figures on the implementation of state-wide health information exchanges (HIE) – for both directed exchange and query-based exchange. You can also find out more about HIE solutions at the upcoming "2013 Health Data Exchange & Interoperability Summit" being held October 30-31, 2013, in Washington D.C. Read More »
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States, Vendors Form Workgroup to Up EHR/HIE Adoption
Today, the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, originally formed by the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), will announce the collaborative work of seven states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon), eight EHR vendors (Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, Greenway, McKesson Physician Practice Solutions, NextGen Healthcare, Sage, and Siemens Healthcar Read More »
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Systems Reengineering To Improve Care
PCAST report calls for fundamental rethinking of data practices
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Techniques for Matching Patient Record Data Across Disparate EHRs and Other Systems
The promise of secure and seamless exchange of patient healthcare information is powerful. As payers, providers, Health Information Exchanges (HIXs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) move rapidly toward the full deployment of electronic medical records, healthcare IT professionals are grappling with a fragmented network of systems and data silos. Read More »
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Telemedicine Opportunities in China (2 Topics)
Why T-med in China? The following is my rationale...China’s Ministry of Health has a plan to train 800, 000 primary care providers in a very short period of time. These new village physicians (bare-foot doctors) need telemedicine support, especially in triage.
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The 'Post EHR' Era
At BIDMC, we've already achieved 100% EHR adoption and 90% Meaningful Use attestation among our clinician community. Now that the foundation is laid, I believe our next body of work is to craft the technology and workflow solutions which will be hallmarks of the "post EHR" era. Read More »
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The Case For Improving Health Data Liquidity
While some disagree on the right approach to transform our healthcare system, most will agree that patients must remain at the core. In order to deliver on the promise of more affordable, convenient care, healthcare decision makers should look at every decision with the patient at the center. Read More »
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