Health Info Exchange

Friday, May 24, 2013

Health Info Exchange

Stories here include reports from the emerging exchanges across the country that are enabling data sharing among hospitals, group practices, labs, imaging facilities, pharmacies and payers. Topics include HIE governance and related standards, such as HL7.

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HIT Vendor Round-up: Prognosis, HealthInfoNet, PracticeMax & McKesson

Joseph Goedert | May 23

New leadership, an acquisition and milestones are among recent health information technology vendor announcements:

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Practice Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Impatient About Electronic Health Records

Glen Tullman | May 23

I’m impatient about realizing the benefits of electronic health records—we all are. But, as the futurist Roy Amara once cautioned, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

Policy & Regulation

EHR

Hospitals

Group Practices

First Vendors Get Accredited for Direct Messaging Services

Joseph Goedert | May 22

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has accredited the first four vendors to meet newly developed best practices for providing secure messaging services using the Direct Project protocols.

Group Practices

Hospitals

EHR

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Systems Integration

Consumer Groups, EHR Vendors Talk Back to GOP Senators

Joseph Goedert | May 21

Fourteen consumer organizations in a joint letter advise six Republican members of the U.S. Senate to not seek to pause or delay the electronic health records meaningful use program.

EHR

Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

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Healthland Acquisition Targets the Continuum of Care

Joseph Goedert | May 21

Healthland, a vendor of clinical and financial/administrative information systems for rural community and critical access hospitals, has acquired American HealthTech, which sells software to skilled nursing facilities and other post-acute care providers.

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Group Practices

Hospitals

Revenue Cycle & Payments

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Vendor News

California Developing Guidance for Patient Consent of HIE

Joseph Goedert | May 17

The California Health and Human Services Agency has released a guidance tool on requirements for obtaining patient authorization and consent for providers to electronically exchange information for treatment purposes.

Data Security

Consumer Health

EHR

Hospitals

Group Practices

Payers

Policy & Regulation

WEDI Picks Leaders for New Report on Next Generation HIE

Joseph Goedert | May 16

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has announced co-chairs of four workgroups that will work on the 2013 WEDI Report, envisioned as a definitive roadmap for the next generation of health information exchange technologies.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

OCR Seminars to Walk through Omnibus HIPAA Rule

Joseph Goedert | May 16

The HHS Office for Civil Rights has scheduled four Web seminars to explain the omnibus final HIPAA rule to modify the privacy, security, breach notification and enforcement rules.

Consumer Health

Data Security

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Stimulus

Policy & Regulation

Web Seminar to Focus on Using Direct Messaging in Stage 2

Joseph Goedert | May 15

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission will host a free 90-minute Web seminar on May 30 to walk through using the Direct Project secure messaging protocols to comply with Stage 2 electronic health records meaningful use measures.

Electronic Data Interchange

EHR

Payers

Group Practices

Hospitals

Stimulus

Policy & Regulation

ONC Offers Guidance on Stage 2 Transitions of Care

Joseph Goedert | May 10

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued guidance on how “health information service providers” and “health information organizations” can support providers in meeting the electronic health records meaningful use criteria for transition of care measures.

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Community Health Centers to Aid in HIX Enrollment

Joseph Goedert | May 10

The HHS Health Resources and Services Administration is offering $150 million in grants to community health centers across the nation to provide in-person enrollment assistance to patients who are uninsured.

Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Michigan HIE Links EMS, Fire Departments to Hospitals

Joseph Goedert | May 09

Michigan Health Connect, a large regional health information exchange, is connecting fire departments and emergency medical services to its network that links 67 hospitals including eight delivery systems, and ancillary providers across the lower peninsula of the state.

Group Practices

Decision Support

Hospitals

Payers

Vendor News

CMS: Deadline Nears to Avoid Medicare eRx Payment Penalty

Joseph Goedert | May 08

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published guidance on avoiding a 2 percent reduction in Medicare payments for physicians who are not participating in the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program by June 30, 2013:

Payers

Group Practices

Medication Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Policy & Regulation

Coding

Electronic Data Interchange

Get Ready for New HL7 Standards

Joseph Goedert | May 07

Health Level Seven International is well along in development of its next-generation integration standards, called Fast Health Interoperable Resources, or FHIR.

Systems Integration

EHR

Hospitals

Group Practices

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Summit Examines State I.T. Initiatives, Challenges

jose | May 07

The 2013 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit, May 21-22 in Baltimore, presents an opportunity to get updated with health information technology issues and lessons that the nation’s state governments are grappling with.

Payers

Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

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