May 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Health information exchanges are taking a wide variety of approaches around the country to develop value-added services to sustain their exchanges. Panelists of the "Health Information Exchange: Strategies and Sustainability panel" at the HCI Executive Summit discuss what has worked for their exchanges.
April 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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On Monday, April 2, the National eHealth Collaborative released its “Health Information Exchange Roadmap: The Landscape and a Path Forward,” a four-phase blueprint toward sustainability to help accelerate health information exchange (HIE) initiatives. On the report’s release, NeHC sponsored a webinar briefing featuring NeHC CEO Kate Berry, representatives from Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and HIE pioneers.
March 29, 2012 David Raths
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While most health information exchanges have yet to achieve reaching financial sustainability, HIEs in Rhode Island and Indiana are beginning to demonstrate the considerable value of statewide data exchange.
March 14, 2012
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I am currently engaged with a number of clients in various stages of the acquisition of some form of enterprise image management application. In some recent conversations with several vendors, I am surprised at the number of “Request for Proposals” or RFP’s that these vendors are receiving from various facilities. As a result, I am rethinking the acceptance rate of healthcare providers for addressing image management in the enterprise!
March 13, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Last month the Washington, D.C.-based National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) released the results of its 2012 NeHC Stakeholder Survey, which featured the biggest challenges to achieving widespread health information exchange. Sixty-one percent of respondents said funding and sustainability was the main obstacle, while 53 percent said interoperability standards were hindering HIE adoption.
March 8, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Those in the industry say that health information exchange (HIE) has reached a critical nexus in maturation, whereby the basic, or as some say “directed,” exchange is in the process of being commoditized, making way for the next phase of exchange: true innovation.
March 6, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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With federal health information exchange (HIE) funding drying up in 2014 and with the release of the Affordable Care Act, health plans are increasingly being viewed as key stakeholders in the HIE sustainability equation. HIEs can’t be successful unless payers get involved, said Gary Austin, principal and co-founder of TranzformHealth, a Las Vegas-based healthcare consultancy.
March 2, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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As I was telling someone this week, I’m still digging out from HIMSS12 that took place last week in Las Vegas. Not only did I conduct a lot of great interviews with interesting folks like MAeHC’s Micky Tripathi, Huntington Hospital’s Rebecca Armato, and NeHC’s Kate Berry, I sat in on a ton of great sessions. A couple of sessions that stuck out were from the HIE Symposium which delved into timely topics of HIE sustainability and interstate collaborations
February 14, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
February 6, 2012
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Understanding VNA objectives aids in knowing how to apply industry standards
January 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast HCI Associate Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo speaks with Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO of Norman Regional Health System and a board certified Family Medicine physician. Yeaman speaks about how he uses SMRTNet, a publicly-owned network of affiliated HIEs spanning the state of Oklahoma that was developed in 2005. SMRTNet is currently connected to more than 27 million records from 45 unique contributing facilities, covering more than 2.6 million lives and 7 million encounters. SMRTNet incorporates clinics, hospitals and lab data into one location, and the network was identified by the National eHealth Collaborative as one of twelve national HIE leaders. During the podcast, Yeaman speaks about why SMRTNet is not seeking out payer-involvement just yet.
January 23, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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To create a truly sustainable health information exchange (HIE), those in the industry say that, for starters, the exchange must be built on a solid use case. No one can attest to this more than Brian Yeaman, M.D., a family medicine physician and CMIO of 324-bed Norman Regional Health System (Oklahoma City). Yeaman is one of the many clinicians that uses SMRTNet, a publicly-owned network of affiliated HIEs spanning the state of Oklahoma that was developed in 2005.
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