Even as the chorus grows to delay or even scrap Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program amid accusations of "information blocking," HHS still backs interoperability efforts.
Despite all the talk of interoperability among policy-makers, providers and even technology vendors, today's crop of electronic health records will continue to be "fortress" applications that hinder information sharing until incentives change and, perhaps most importantly, end users demand interoperable systems, according to a new Chilmark Research report.
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.
Few industries still rely on fax technology the way healthcare does, and advocates for greater transparency in healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic can't wait for that to change.
One of Michigan’s largest HMOs has joined the Michigan Health Information Network to share its data. Molina Healthcare of Michigan, a subsidiary of California-based Molina Healthcare, said it will join the network with its 244,000 statewide members in what is the first information sharing effort for Molina in Michigan. Data will include admissions, discharges and transfer notifications. As part of the […]
App developer Humetrix said its iBlueButton will be used by California Direct and its physicians hoping to create better lines of communication with patients. It’s the first mobile foray for California Direct, a health information exchange run by Santa Cruz-based Axesson that works with hospitals, ACOs and other providers throughout the West Coast on issues […]
Following the June release of ONC’s Ten Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure, National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Karen DeSalvo posted, “We have heard loudly and clearly that interoperability is a national priority.” While there can be no doubt that interoperability in the health IT infrastructure is desirable, it is not […]
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 February, the Lewis and Clark Information Exchange (LACIE) in Kansas City, Mo., and the Tiger Institute Health Alliance (TIHA) in Columbia, Mo., began the secure sharing of EHR data between the two networks. It remains very much a work in progress. While the organizations have not yet compiled cross-network usage statistics for the first […]
America can achieve widespread health information exchange by 2017, according to newly minted national health IT coordinator Dr. Karen DeSalvo. “We can do national healthcare exchange in three years,” DeSalvo said Thursday at the 2014 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS ) conference in Orlando, Fla. Americans should be able to take for granted […]
Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and Mount Carmel Health System have committed to becoming part of CliniSync, which facilitates the sharing of patient records between providers, hospitals and health systems across the state of Ohio. Ohio’s health information exchange has quickly been gaining steam since it launched two years ago. Two Cleveland powerhouses, Cleveland […]
Pennsylvanians have a pretty sophisticated grasp of their right to their electronic medical records. When it comes to the state’s health information exchange, the level of awareness for goals such as reducing duplicate lab tests is relatively low, even though they recognized the its importance. Good thing the purpose of the survey was to develop […]
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In Harris County Texas, there are more than 69,000 pairs of people who share the same names and birth dates, according to entrepreneur David Batchelor. That’s the kind of thing that’s causing so much “dirty data” in hospitals’ medical records systems. “Right now there’s no way for an individual registration clerk to know that it […]
Set your status. Check in with your symptoms. Share photos. Tag parts of the body. Hashtag to join conversations. Personiform‘s Project Medyear combines Twitter and Google Plus with a political campaign-style health record-sharing patient movement. It aspires to be NoMoreClipboard on a Friday night — less official, more social. And Personiform’s kicked off a campaign […]
Yesterday I joined several Massachusetts CIOs at a Meditech healthcare information exchange kickoff meeting. Here are the slides we used.Meditech has chosen to do the right thing - support the Direct protocol without requiring a vendor specific ...
The Indiana Health Information Exchange is spinning off a for-profit company to support its own efforts and bring the benefits of health information exchanges to other states and communities. The Regenstrief Institute Inc., is licensing its technology that runs the Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to the new organization. […]
The pair of explosions near the finish line at yesterday’s Boston Marathon sent more than 100 patients – several of them in serious or critical condition – to unexpecting area hospitals. The way those patients were dispersed among the hospitals shows good coordination and planning on the part of the city and emergency responders, said […]