The state of Connecticut got high marks on its health insurance exchange, but when it comes to health information exchanges, it has a long way to go. The Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut, the state’s quasi-public agency created to develop a workable HIE, was recently dissolved “after wasting $4.3 million in federal grants and […]
Representatives from some 20 health information exchanges across the country are collectively forming a national consortium, dubbed the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative, that aims to influence policy and assist members through ideas and improvements The collaborative has developed a formal organization with by-laws and an elected board of directors. An executive director will be […]
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We’re having a great week at Cerner Health Conference, and I wish you could all be here. I delivered my keynote speech this morning. Thanks for your kind attention and patience with my stream-of-consciousness style. It’s typical that I leave many sentences unfinished. This year, however, due to a personal trigger in the speech, I […]
A significant share of the dozens of health information exchanges in California — nine in total — recently signed off on an agreement that sets the framework for data sharing between otherwise unaffiliated providers. According to an announcement from the California Association of Health Information Exchanges, the nine HIEs signed the California Data Use and […]
The potential for wide-scale data sharing across healthcare is gaining in equal parts reality and complexity, panelists at Redwood MedNet’s conference said last week in California. Despite some significant challenges that need to be overcome, the consensus was that the health data revolution will arrive sooner than later. Keynote speaker John Halamka, CIO at Beth […]
Health information exchanges are poised to redefine how providers and payers interact with one another and show great potential in improving patient care by utilizing a torrent of new data. That same torrent is also causing challenges in HIT infrastructure and HIPPA compliance. Those were just a few of the key takeaways at California-based Redwood […]
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It was a good news/bad news kind of day for the state officials leading the 16 health insurance exchanges that launched (or were supposed to launch) yesterday. Thousands of people wanted to sign up for an account and apply for a health insurance policy, but the websites couldn’t handle all the traffic. The federal exchange […]
There’s good news and bad news in a HIMSS progress report on Health Information Exchanges published this week. The good news is the percentage of healthcare facilities participating in these exchanges has grown in the past five years from 14 percent in 2008 to 30 percent in April 2013. The bad news is budget and […]
There is no such thing as a cookie cutter approach to healthcare information exchanges. That is a point HIMSS Senior Director of Informatics Pam Matthews can’t emphasize enough. Sure, there may be some common models — network of networks, hub and spoke, peer-to-peer — and each exchange wants to meet Meaningful Use requirements outlined in […]