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Health information exchange implementation and management
- June 08, 2012
08 Jun'12
ONC ponders voluntary, certified health information exchange
A new trusted health information exchange certification program is underway in ONC advisory committees. Here's what you need to know.
- May 17, 2012
17 May'12
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.
- April 17, 2012
17 Apr'12
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.
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- February 23, 2012
23 Feb'12
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.
- February 21, 2012
21 Feb'12
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.
- February 20, 2012
20 Feb'12
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.
- February 20, 2012
20 Feb'12
'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.
- November 02, 2011
02 Nov'11
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.
- October 27, 2011
27 Oct'11
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.
- July 27, 2011
27 Jul'11
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.
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- July 06, 2011
06 Jul'11
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.
- May 18, 2011
18 May'11
Differing laws, data standards complicate state HIE initiatives
State health IT leaders discuss how privacy laws and EHR interoperability issues make interstate health information exchange anything but straightforward.
- May 17, 2011
17 May'11
Blumenthal: Building national health network could take decades
Despite many barriers, the national health network envisioned by former ONC head Dr. David Blumenthal will be built, he says -- but maybe not by the HITECH Act's goal of 2015.
- April 19, 2011
19 Apr'11
Can HIE technology be extended to the ACO model?
One health information exchange is raising a fascinating idea: since it's already collecting patient data, why not create its own accountable care organization?
- March 02, 2011
02 Mar'11
Gaining perspective on health information exchange at HIMSS 2011
Interviews and sessions at HIMSS 2011 reveal that the term health information exchange means different things to different people. No matter the model, the goals are the same.