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Health information exchange implementation and management

• CareMount establishes post-acute care network for better communication

  CareMount Medical hopes for reduced costs and improved quality of care by improving how the acute and post-acute care settings communicate and measure success.  Continue Reading

• SCL Health's new CIO outlines first steps in new role

  In this Q&A, Craig Richardville looks back at what he's learned over his career as a CIO and consultant, as well as what he plans to do in his new role as CIO of SCL Health.  Continue Reading

• Clinical processes, not AI, key to solving healthcare's problems

  Partners' Sandy Aronson has a message for healthcare IT pros: If you want to have an impact, focus on making clinical processes more effective and more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Hospital taps Parachute Health to cut cord on fax machine

  New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.  Continue Reading

• HEALTHeLINK HIE surpasses one million consenting patients

  New York-based health information exchange HEALTHeLINK recently surpassed one million enrolled patients, due in part to increased awareness of the benefits of HIEs.  Continue Reading

• Orgs take two approaches to creating interoperability platform

  Many in healthcare are trying to figure out how to effectively make interoperability happen. Two healthcare organizations take two different approaches to creating interoperability systems.  Continue Reading

• ONC focuses on creating interoperability between health systems

  Although the creation of interoperability between health systems has been a goal for a while now, it's still not happening widely. ONC discussed plans to move interoperability forward.  Continue Reading

• Secure text messaging keeps parents and providers informed

  A Tennessee children's hospital uses secure messaging to send parents updates about their child's health and to let providers know when a patient has arrived.  Continue Reading

• Secure messaging platform improves productivity for pediatric hospital

  A pediatric hospital in Tennessee uses secure messaging to send notifications ranging from lab results to inclement weather alerts, and to admit patients quickly from the ER.  Continue Reading

• Essential population health management tools: HIE, CRM, data analytics

  With population health management tools, one size does not fit all and that's why it's important to include a mixture of technologies including HIEs, CRM and data analytics.  Continue Reading

• To solve lack of interoperability, health IT tries third-party apps, HIEs

  Many healthcare professionals are turning to third-party applications, the use of APIs and HIEs to overcome the lack of interoperability still present in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Interoperability may be in sight as Epic and Cerner work together

  As two of the largest EHRs in the healthcare space, Epic and Cerner have often appeared to be at odds with each other. But that seems to be changing via an ONC initiative.  Continue Reading

• HIE executive director: Why HIEs probably aren't data blocking

  Some experts have discussed how data blocking is occurring with HIEs. But an HIE executive director argues that other barriers are in the way and contractually HIEs can't data block.  Continue Reading

• PatientPing helps with coordinating care among healthcare providers

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT features PatientPing, a startup in Boston that provides technology to improve coordinating care.  Continue Reading

• Behavioral health data sharing drives push for better treatment

  With the current free sharing of behavioral health information, patients are driving the push for increased access to treatment -- and providers and payers are paying attention.  Continue Reading