For those of us in healthcare, “going green” isn’t a fad; it’s a business reality. Conserving resources and taking advantage of new technologies not only improves the environment – it improves the bottom line as well. Most importantly, streamlined communication means better care for our patients and more peace of mind for their families. In […]
There may be a simple, scalable and powerful way to manage a patient's privacy preferences: add access permissions to the web address where the data is stored.
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.
Striking the right balance between secure data and sharable data is a complex task, but not an impossible one.
Late last month, nine organizations interested in early adoption of the Statewide Health Information Exchange met to plan the final details of the October 15, 2012 go live. We explored in the depth the details of the Direct standard and its supporting components including S/MIME clients/servers, XDR (SOAP), Webmail (Secure web-based messaging), use of gateway […]
Representing nearly half of the healthcare sector, single providers are key players in the healthcare reform. EMRs, initially designed for hospital base use may have proved surplus to the needs of independent practitioners with a smaller patient base. However, with the recent shift towards coordinated care, the healthcare sector is changing quickly and recent trends […]
Massachusetts has created a three year, three phased HIE plan based on “pushing” records from place to place, creating analytic repositories, and “pulling” data from providers based on a centralized consent repository/ master patient index. Here’s a brief overview from a recent NPR broadcast. We all want to solve the “Unconscious in the Emergency Department […]
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.
With the US healthcare system in shambles, there is a lot riding on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In fact, most medical professionals today regard ACOs as the cornerstone of the healthcare reforms. “There is a need for a grand scheme; a vision that can align goals in the health community. ACOs offer just that”, says […]
Since 1997, the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), a non-profit run by stakeholder board members, has provided community-wide collaborative payer-provider administrative transaction exchange for a fixed subscription fee. I was recently asked about the return on investment of administrative healthcare information exchange. The answer is summarized in this presentation. NEHEN members use the exchange […]
The recent focus of the government is slowly shifting towards HIEs and interoperable systems as EMR adoption continues to rise. Many health IT experts argue that while EMR may have been the core of the health IT movement initially, its importance lies in building the support pillars for a new system that extends far beyond […]