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Health information exchange implementation and management

• SecureLink for Healthcare targets vendor access management

  SecureLink for Healthcare is designed for helping health systems like UMass Memorial Health Care manage vendor access to their networks.  Continue Reading

• 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

• The CIO of MGH discusses health information exchange challenges

  It is well known in the health IT world that health information exchange challenges abound. The CIO of MGH discusses the challenges he has witnessed in Massachusetts.  Continue Reading

• Online clinical network works to make interoperability possible

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT dives into how an online clinical network can help create interoperability, share patient information between doctors, improve workflow.  Continue Reading

• Technology drives precision health by linking hospitals and researchers

  A small company in Massachusetts is working to achieve precision health by using their technology to bring hospitals and researchers together.  Continue Reading

• CIO: Healthcare data blocking is purely political

  The technology is in place for interoperability in healthcare. So why is data blocking still happening? It's purely political, one CIO says.  Continue Reading

• CIOs discuss EHR problems and single-solution EHR integration

  Many healthcare organizations have migrated to a single-solution EHR to improve workflow and patient care. However, it hasn't solved all EHR problems, CIOs say.  Continue Reading

• CIOs address EHR problems, focus on lack of interoperability

  It's no secret that EHR problems are aplenty in healthcare. But the lack of interoperability is top of mind for many in health IT. Two healthcare CIOs share their stories.  Continue Reading

• Patient matching technology helps HIE reduce duplicate records

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT looks at how an HIE reduced duplicate patient records by using NextGate's patient matching technology.  Continue Reading

• Home care IT needs upgrade, says health policy expert Micky Tripathi

  Micky Tripathi, CEO at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), said adequate home care IT is not widely adopted in the Bay State. A new survey aims to identify the gaps.  Continue Reading

• Interoperability in healthcare to come with strong standards

  When it comes to healthcare interoperability, Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare, is outspoken to say the least. And he thinks the standards in place now aren't enough.  Continue Reading

• Developers using FHIR interoperability standard

  While still a draft standard, FHIR, the younger sibling of interoperability standard HL7, is already being used by developers.  Continue Reading

• Data analytics helps Maine HIE take next steps

  Maine recently implemented a data analytics platform on top of its state health information exchange, enabling Maine HIE participants to predict readmissions and ER visits.  Continue Reading

• Industry shifts focus to health IT interoperability

  Health information exchange has yet to meet the expectations of some healthcare professionals and regulators. The ONC has a plan to fix that.  Continue Reading

• HL7 International CEO on developing health IT standards

  The CEO of HL7 discusses the lack of a national patient identifier and the organization's global approach to standards development.  Continue Reading

• HL7 chief Charles Jaffe talks FHIR

  In this Q&A, HL7 International CEO Charles Jaffe, M.D., says FHIR is moving quickly toward being a top interoperability standard.  Continue Reading

• Single health IT standard not feasible, says Doug Fridsma

  Doug Fridsma discusses the difficulties of uniting all providers under one health IT standard and talks about his move from ONC to AMIA.  Continue Reading

• Mobile EHR drchrono needs no desktop, server PCs

  Physicians looking to ditch their keyboards, laptops and servers have a meaningful use stage 2 certified mobile EHR that can be used on iPads in drchrono.  Continue Reading