January 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at the Colorado Beacon Consortium are leveraging powerful analytics and health information exchange tools to support region-wide, physician practice-based population health tools, for the benefit of patients scattered across the Rocky Mountain west.
January 19, 2013 Mark Hagland
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David Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., CEO of the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative, a Portland, Maine-based collaborative organization founded by four integrated health systems in New England, shares his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities involved in laying the IT foundations for accountable care
October 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Remember back in middle school gym class when the team captains began the agonizing process of selecting teams for whatever the sport you were playing at the time. You'd cringe and hope you wouldn't be the last kid standing waiting to be chosen for a team. Well, that seems to be a possible consideration for organizations that are still pondering their next steps for health information exchange (HIE) and community alignment.
September 14, 2012
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According to a report from the Burlington, V.T.-based CapSite, a healthcare technology research and advisory firm, 71 percent of U.S. Hospitals are looking to buy new health information exchange (HIE) solutions. The report, the 2012 U.S. Health Information Exchange (HIE) Study, looked at insights from 370 hospitals on HIE market adoption, share, and opportunity.
August 14, 2012
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Texas Health Resources, the Arlington, Texas-based large health system, is set to roll out a health information exchange from Salt Lake City-based Medicity. The HIE will exchange data throughout Texas Health’s 25 inpatient, transitional, rehabilitation and short-stay hospitals, 18 outpatient facilities, and more than 5,500 affiliated physicians.
July 25, 2012
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently released guidelines for statewide health information exchanges to use direct clinical messaging. The guidelines are ONC’s aim to help health information service providers (HISPs) with the perceived need for peer-to-peer legal agreements, allowing them to seamlessly exchange messages.
July 18, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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From the first planning meeting in mid-2009 for the Peoria, Ill.-based Central Illinois Health Information Exchange (CIHIE), participants were asked to “take off their nametags” and talk about the exchange from the patient’s point of view. This approach to planning allowed the participants in the 20-county area of Illinois (in the Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, and Decatur areas) to be the first regional health information exchange in Illinois to go live with secure, automated data exchange of patient records.
July 17, 2012
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A new report from the Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Health Insights looked at the evolution of the health information exchange (HIE) market, concluding the market’s focus is shifting. The study, IDC MarketScape: U.S. Health Information Exchange Platform Solutions 2012 Vendor Assessment, says the shift has gone from connecting the ecosystem to exchange data and qualify for meaningful use incentives, to turning data into "actionable information" that enables emerging accountable care or collaborative care initiatives.
July 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In light of the recent shuttering of Tennessee’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), what has never been more apparent is that HIEs must solve concrete business problems, while also fitting into clinician workflow. Nine healthcare providers in western Pennsylvania are seeking to do just that by launching ClinicalConnect, the region’s first HIE, to improve the quality and coordination of care for patients as they move among the region’s hospital systems.
July 6, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Group Health, the Seattle-based integrated delivery system that is both a payer and a provider, is the very definition of a model student when it comes to health information exchange (HIE). I make this comparison because the system has done well in marshalling its resources internally and externally to create a pragmatic approach for exchange. However, like many HIEs around the country, Group Health is still studying new approaches to find what works.
June 25, 2012
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A new association, the Association of Regional Centers for Health Information Technology, or ARCH-IT, has been formed aimed at providing a voice for regional extension centers (RECs). RECs provide assistance and guidance for the adoption and use of health information technology within a localized community.
June 12, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) today announced it has chosen health information exchange provider Orion Health to enable physicians and clinicians to access and exchange patient information, coordinate patient care, and update patient records throughout its 100 facilities in 19 different states. CHI, made up of 76 hospitals, 40 long-term and assisted care facilities, two community health-services organizations, and two accredited nursing colleges, will use Orion Health HIE as the cornerstone of its $1.5 billion OneCare program to create a shared, universal health record.
