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Tutorial: How the Veterans Health Administration is an IT leader
From EHR and telehealth to PACS and HIE, the Veterans Health Administration has always been an early adopter of information technology. This FAQ covers the VHA's many initiatives. Tutorial
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Briefing: What is health information exchange?
Through health information exchange, national standards govern the sharing of data. Disparate locations and EHR systems no longer pose challenges. But HIE remains a work in progress. FAQ
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SearchHealthIT.com podcasts provide health IT news on the go
SearchHealthIT.com podcasts provide health IT news on the go, featuring interviews with health IT leaders and advice from health IT experts. Tutorial
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EHR adoption, telemedicine feasible for Colorado's rural providers
Collaboration between Colorado’s health information exchange and the state's telehealth network brings EHR adoption and telemedicine services to rural providers and hospitals. News | 17 May 2012
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Strategies for selling benefits of HIE to patients
Emphasizing how health information exchange helps patients brought the Central Illinois HIE from nearly nothing to 50% participation in just three years. Here's how it happened. News | 17 Apr 2012
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Meaningful use stage 2's bumpy landing at HIMSS 2012
Meaningful use stage 2 will finally see release, but not during HIMSS 2012 as expected. Watching the waiting game unfold made for fascinating, if also uneasy, theater. News | 23 Feb 2012
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Health care CIOs must be champions of information exchange
CIOs at a pre-HIMSS 2012 forum learned that information exchange is more than just federal HIE mandates. It's also a tool for getting clinical, administrative staff to cooperate. News | 21 Feb 2012
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Health IT adoption rising, thanks to HITECH Act and despite politics
On the eve of HIMSS 2012, VHA senior advisor Ashish Jha says the HITECH Act is helping health IT building the infrastructure for health reform. Next up: Doing the same for HIE. News | 20 Feb 2012
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'Beleaguered' public health departments get HIE connectivity help
Federal officials discuss the state of HIE at HIMSS 2012. Public health agencies, with limited resources, are having trouble keeping up, though teaming with HIEs seems to help. News | 20 Feb 2012
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Lessons learned on the way to getting meaningful use payments
Good governance, project management and workflow analysis will help hospitals meet meaningful use today. Tomorrow, though, the focus will shift to health information exchange. News | 02 Nov 2011
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Maine HIE sets national example for patient, provider participation
As U.S. states struggle to build health information exchange, Maine's got a federal-funding jump start. Its leader shared trials and tribulations at the AHIMA 2011 meeting. News | 27 Oct 2011
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City, county health officials struggling with health data exchange
Funding and expertise are scarce as local public health officials prepare to be inundated with immunization, syndromic surveillance and lab patient data, thanks to meaningful use. News | 27 Jul 2011
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For state HIE, patient opt-out a thorny technical issue
Building a state HIE is complicated. Creating an IT back-end to support individual patient consent -- mandated by law in some states -- is even more complex. News | 06 Jul 2011
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iHT2 talks health information exchange, technology adoption
Providers are looking forward to greater levels of health information exchange, and at iHT2, participants discuss how to get there. Tip
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National HIE hindered by interoperability barriers, vendor reluctance
Two radiologists who built HIEs from scratch don't see a national HIE happening soon. Vendors aren't keen to embrace HIE standards, they say, and interoperability is a struggle. Tip
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For some providers, HIE implementation cannot wait
Radiologists and other medical specialists are increasingly finding that waiting for state health information exchanges to come online is a bad business decision. Tip
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Nationwide, HIE connectivity happening slowly, surely
While the dream of nationwide health information exchange driven by state HIE implementation stays stuck in the planning stage, specialists are sharing patient data on their own. Tip
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State HIE list from the HITECH Act
The HITECH Act allocated nearly $550 million to develop a health information exchange in each U.S. state and territory. This tip lists each state's HIE and who's in charge. Tip
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Electronic health records (EHR) strategy and advice from an RHIO technical manager
The NYCLIX regional health information organization (RHIO) has connected EHR systems throughout New York for six years -- and the group’s technical manager has much advice. Tip
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Lack of health information exchange standards slowing adoption
Regional health information organizations are finding it hard to integrate with other RHIOs due to slow development of standards for health information exchanges. Tip
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Health information exchanges benefits include lower costs, better care
Some health care organizations such as health information exchanges are showing improved efficiency, lower costs and better patient care using electronic health records. Tip
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Continuity of Care Document (CCD)
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is an electronic document exchange standard for sharing patient summary information. Definition
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Continuity of Care Record (CCR)
The Continuity of Care Record, or CCR, is a standard for the creation of electronic summaries of patient health. Its aim is to improve the quality of health care and to reduce medical errors by making current information readily available to physicia... Definition
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health information exchange (HIE)
Health information exchange (HIE) is the transmission of healthcare-related data among facilities, health information organizations (HIO) and government agencies according to national standards. Definition
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Key HIMSS 2011 trends to track: HIE, ACO and ICD-10
With the health care industry at a crossroads, the HIMSS 2011 show is focusing on innovations in health information exchange -- and such mandates as the ICD-10 conversion. Video
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Health information technology management leaders talk info exchange
Health information technology management headlines the Healthcare Stimulus Exchange conference in Chicago as speakers discuss the state of national health information exchange. Video
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What's new for health information exchange in CONNECT 3.0
David Riley, lead for the Federal Health Architecture, discusses how version 3 of the open source tool CONNECT can advance health information exchange, a key tenet of meaningful use. Podcast
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Making progress toward meaningful use compliance and HIE
Speakers from the Healthcare Stimulus Exchange conference discuss how they are making progress toward meaningful use compliance and health information exchange. Video
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EHR adoption, telemedicine feasible for Colorado's rural providers
Collaboration between Colorado’s health information exchange and the state's telehealth network brings EHR adoption and telemedicine services to rural providers and hospitals. News
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iHT2 talks health information exchange, technology adoption
Providers are looking forward to greater levels of health information exchange, and at iHT2, participants discuss how to get there. Tip
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Strategies for selling benefits of HIE to patients
Emphasizing how health information exchange helps patients brought the Central Illinois HIE from nearly nothing to 50% participation in just three years. Here's how it happened. News
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National HIE hindered by interoperability barriers, vendor reluctance
Two radiologists who built HIEs from scratch don't see a national HIE happening soon. Vendors aren't keen to embrace HIE standards, they say, and interoperability is a struggle. Tip
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For some providers, HIE implementation cannot wait
Radiologists and other medical specialists are increasingly finding that waiting for state health information exchanges to come online is a bad business decision. Tip
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Nationwide, HIE connectivity happening slowly, surely
While the dream of nationwide health information exchange driven by state HIE implementation stays stuck in the planning stage, specialists are sharing patient data on their own. Tip
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Meaningful use stage 2's bumpy landing at HIMSS 2012
Meaningful use stage 2 will finally see release, but not during HIMSS 2012 as expected. Watching the waiting game unfold made for fascinating, if also uneasy, theater. News
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Health care CIOs must be champions of information exchange
CIOs at a pre-HIMSS 2012 forum learned that information exchange is more than just federal HIE mandates. It's also a tool for getting clinical, administrative staff to cooperate. News
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Health IT adoption rising, thanks to HITECH Act and despite politics
On the eve of HIMSS 2012, VHA senior advisor Ashish Jha says the HITECH Act is helping health IT building the infrastructure for health reform. Next up: Doing the same for HIE. News
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'Beleaguered' public health departments get HIE connectivity help
Federal officials discuss the state of HIE at HIMSS 2012. Public health agencies, with limited resources, are having trouble keeping up, though teaming with HIEs seems to help. News
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About Health information exchange implementation and management
Through health information exchange (HIE), physicians can better share patient data, improving collaboration at a local, state and (it is hoped) national level. Learn the latest about HIE standards, see how state HIE organizations are working with providers to improve health data exchange and find out how health information exchange intersects with meaningful use.