September 26, 2012
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After much turmoil surrounding the development of a statewide health information exchange (HIE) in California, UC Davis Health System announced on September 25 that leaders at the Institute for Population Health Improvement have established a new HIE organization, the California Health eQuality (CHeQ). CHeQ seeks to improve health-care quality and the coordination of care by using HIE technology to facilitate the rapid flow of information among physician offices, hospitals and other healthcare providers.
September 25, 2012
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Organizations in Michigan and Indiana have successfully established a secure infrastructure to transmit health data across state lines, the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) and the Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN) announced this week. The connection has been established by both organizations, which provide Health Information Exchange (HIE) services for Michigan, Indiana, and other Midwestern states.
September 19, 2012
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The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), the not-for-profit organization which is aiming to implement the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY), has chosen the Fishkill, N.Y.-based MedAllies to operate a “Direct Solution.” The solution, similar to a secure email function, would allow healthcare providers to seamlessly send data from one provider directly to another who is caring for the same patient.
September 19, 2012 Pete Rivera
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Based on a WSJ Opinion piece EMR software is “is generally clunky, frustrating, user-unfriendly and inefficient.” Although I will not disagree with this “generalization,” I do take exception with the articles naïve view that Health IT systems have not improved patient health.
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.
September 13, 2012 David Raths
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The board of the nonprofit organization set up to govern health information exchange in Kansas voted unanimously Sept. 12 to turn its responsibilities over to the state government once federal grant funding runs out next September.
September 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Last week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that it was dropping its request for information (RFI) for a governance framework for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). Many IT leaders applaud this effort in light of a waning regulatory bandwidth as the industry focuses on requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use, ICD-10, and the three Medicare programs, value-based purchasing, avoidable readmissions reduction, and healthcare-acquired conditions reduction, mandated under the ACA.
September 10, 2012 David Raths
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An announcement in late June by four of Iowa’s leading healthcare organizations signals a trend we are likely to see much more of in the near future: competitors cooperating on care coordination and quality measurement platforms, which requires a greater level of collaboration among CIOs.
August 28, 2012
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The organization responsible operating Maine’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), HealthInfoNet, has announced it is participating in Demonstrating the Preventative Care Value of Health Information Exchanges, an initiative led by the Chantilly, Va.-based Agilex, a program aimed at s establishing technical standards and protocols that HIEs can use to report de-identified, population-level preventative care data to public health officials.
August 24, 2012 David Raths
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CMS followed Health IT Policy Committee in stressing the importance of making health information readily available to patients after a visit.
August 22, 2012
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The West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN) has launched a statewide health information exchange (HIE) system, the public-private partnership announced recently. The HIE is launched with early adopters across Medicaid, Public Health, and provider networks, Wheeling Hospitals and West Virginia University Healthcare (WVUH) as the selected pilot sites.
August 21, 2012 David Raths
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The journey for statewide HIEs has been slow-going and fraught with challenges of governance, consent, security, auditing structure, and secondary data use. Executive directors of statewide health information exchanges speak about the policy hurdles they have encountered, and those that still lay ahead.
