February 5, 2013 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy announced that she will be leaving the Agency after ten years on the job. Meanwhile, several healthcare IT practitioners, academics and policymakers met in Washington this week during a joint meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee and Health IT Standards Committee.
January 29, 2013 David Raths
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Setting the stage for the Jan. 29 joint hearing of the federal HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee on health information exchange (HIE) challenges, Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, described how the industry has evolved to “HIE 2.0.”
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
November 5, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has moved into the next stage of what it’s simply calling the E-Consent Trial. The purpose of the trial is largely focused on patient education about consent options and ways to electronically capture that consent choice.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Health information exchange leaders from both coasts describe groundbreaking progress on numerous fronts, at the CHIME12 Fall CIO Forum in Palm Springs. Standards and the CCD are big areas of focus.
October 17, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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With the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) encouraging providers to adopt Direct, many state health information exchanges (HIEs) are shifting their focus to Direct as a way for providers to meet meaningful use criteria. Florida, like Tennessee and Oregon, are keeping infrastructure costs low and lean to remain sustainable after ONC funds run out.
October 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Micky Tripathi, founding president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MeHC), participated in a state health information exchange (HIE) panel on Oct. 3 at the Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs iEHR and HIE Summitat the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. Senior Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo caught up with Tripathi after the panel to get his thoughts on the struggles of statewide HIEs and what steps Massachusetts is taking to break the mold.
September 4, 2012 David Raths
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Other state-level HIE organizations have struggled with sustainability. Now it's Kansas' turn.
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 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 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Oregon is looking to a new subsidized Direct secure messaging project to be the onramp that many providers take to board the health information exchange superhighway. This program, administered by CareAccord, Oregon's health information exchange (HIE), began enrolling providers in April, and now has 25 approved accounts using this service.
July 10, 2012
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Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN), a Nashville, Tenn.-based organization created three years ago by providers, payers, consumers, and other stakeholders to assist Tennessee in creating a statewide health information exchange (HIE), is planning to wind down operations.
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