We’ve been talking about improving patient satisfaction and creating a more patient-centric care experience for years. But we’ll never get there if we continue to be focused on transactional healthcare, which is where our efforts toward interoperability have traditionally been drawn.
Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate for federal support to drive data sharing amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
After a launching their social determinants of health partnership in Nebraska over the summer, technology company Unite Us and the Nebraska Health Information Initiative have plans to expand it to six more states.
HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator will allocate $2.5 million in CARES Act funding to health information exchanges to support public health uses of information from health information exchanges (HIEs). Five recipients will each get $500,000.
Whether it’s solving a gap in care problem, or a payer/doctor connectivity problem there will always be individual use cases where multisided platforms (or health information exchanges) can and should connect to solve for information exchange at scale.
Experience, provider engagement and technology innovation from the HIEs and the financial power of the payers create a powerful synergy to drive collaboration with the consumer community and meet the interoperability mandates of 2020.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In an effort to give clinicians more opportunities to effectively share valuable information, Rush Health has launched a health information exchange called Rush Health Connect.
Ozark, Missouri-based HealthMEDX serves retirement communities, assisted-living and independent-living facilities, skilled nursing centers and home care providers.
Now, it's just a matter of health IT vendors being ready to provide patients with their data and of patients knowing to ask for access.
This week, Sutter Health added 12 practices to its list of interoperability partners, all with eClinicalWorks EHRs. Sutter, which uses Epic, has been exchanging data among about a dozen area practices on athenahealth's EHR since July 1.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
I immediately thought of the challenge we have turning silos of medical information into a linked, complete, accurate, secure, lifetime medical record.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange has begun bidirectional data exchange with Health Bridge, an HIE based in neighboring Ohio, starting with Reid Health, which straddles the state line.
Confused about health information exchange? Tired of explaining what you do to friends and family? A physician-turned-filmmaker wants to help.
Erica Galvez, who led development of the federal government's Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, has rejoined a former boss in the private sector.
"This is not a new type of product."