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Health information exchange implementation and management

• Health information management professionals aid cybersecurity

  Cybersecurity is an ongoing priority -- and challenge -- for healthcare organizations. A health information management team can help keep data secure and protected. Continue Reading

• Blockchain can help improve the quality of patient care

  Improving patient care quality is an ongoing conversation among healthcare professionals. Learn how the implementation of blockchain can make a difference. Continue Reading

• Experts say secure healthcare communication should function like email

  Secure messaging in healthcare can save providers and patients time and frustration, but the security of PHI should always be the number one priority. 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

• Hospitals prescribe engagement for better patient-doctor relationship

  Treating patients more like customers. It's a simple concept that hospitals find more practical, thanks to the availability of patient engagement tools and techniques borrowed from the domain of the retail industry. The challenge is for health IT ... Continue Reading

• Vendors overcome health information exchange challenges; CIOs have hope

  Vendors demonstrate that interoperability is possible when it comes to patient medication information. This makes CIOs hopeful for the future.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

• 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

• Data blocking: When health information exchanges don't live up to their name

  Data blocking and health information exchanges shouldn't go together. But some HIEs are turning into siloes of data, two experts who discuss the problem say.Continue Reading

• How to achieve interoperability of health information systems

  Creating interoperability of health information systems is harder than it needs to be, a group of experts says. Here are the solutions they think will work.Continue Reading

• CMIO: Steps to solve the healthcare interoperability problem

  Stanford Health Care CMIO offers tips on what can be done to improve interoperability in healthcare.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

• 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

• CHIME hopeful for shorter meaningful use reporting period

  In this podcast, a CHIME executive says Congress may not need to act on the Flex-IT bill and CHIME hopes meaningful use attestations pick up in 2015.Continue Reading

• 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.Continue Reading