Health Information Exchange Technology News

Building Connections on the Care Continuum

A major success factor for accountable care organizations will be linking caregivers across the spectrum of care delivery. If history is any indication, that's going to be an industrywide struggle.

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AMA Annual Payer Report Demonstrates Cost Shift to Patients

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CMS Updates 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for Eligible Professionals

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Three HIT Vendors Make Buys

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Berwick: Public Confused and Scared about Health Care

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HHS/OCR Fines Shasta Regional for Privacy Violations

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Consumer Advocate Slams AHA Position on Patient Access

The American Hospital Association has come under heavy criticism from an influential consumer advocate for its position on a proposed Stage 2 meaningful use provision to give patients electronic access to their health information within 36 hours of discharge.
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What do HIM Departments Look Like in 2016?

A new white paper, written by Linda Kloss, former head of the American Health Information Management Association and now a consultant, examines what HIM departments of the future will look like. Precyse Solutions LLC, a vendor of HIM services, sponsored the paper.
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CMS to Test New Primary Care Program in 7 States

The CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will start the reform law-authorized Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative in seven states.
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Patient Portal Success Factors

The patient portal—whose hallmark is direct consumer access to a provider EHR—can build many bridges between physicians and the public they serve.
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Web Technology

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Where’s the Love for PHRs?

Six years ago, Women's Care Florida, a 13-physician group practice, thought it was leaping into the future when it implemented an ambulatory EHR. The software enables physicians to document their care, process labs and write prescriptions.

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Article Asks: Is Shift Away from RHIOs Wise?

A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association explores changes in development of the Nationwide Health Information Network.
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Hospitals

Report Lays Out Current, Future Roles of HIEs

A new report from the National eHealth Collaborative lays out the existing health information exchange landscape and where the industry needs to go.

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Connectathon’s Role in Achieving Interoperability

As you stroll the exhibit floor at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference, it's hard to miss the Interoperability Showcase, where dozens of information systems and medical devices from different vendors send data hither and yon, simulating a health care environment with (ideally) a seamless, glitch-free flow of information.

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New Standards Support Patient Data Exchange

Standards development organizations OMG and Health Level Seven International have announced availability of the hData Record Format and hData RESTful Transport specifications for electronically exchanging patient information.

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