February 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Jeff Loughlin, project director at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and executive director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire, shares his perspectives on the current state of EHR adoption among medical groups-and the lessons that have been learned by leaders of the regional extension centers.
December 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As Rebecca Grant, director of imaging services at the 625-bed Huntington Hospital, and her colleagues moved through the process of selecting a new PACS vendor, interoperability was the most important factor in their decision-making. Grant explains the various elements in a complex informatics imaging environment, and the factors that influenced her and her colleagues' important decision in this critical area.
November 29, 2012 John DeGaspari
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The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) Health Information Exchange (HIE) Learning Network has presented a set of suggested solutions to challenging HIE issues at the inaugural Technology Crossroads Conference, held in Washington, D.C., this week. These recommendations are the culmination of five months of work by a group of over 450 stakeholders.
October 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at Northeast Georgia Health System have achieved health information exchange for images, while at the same time achieving Stage 1 meaningful use, and pursuing a broad clinical IT strategy, using state-of-the-art information technology.
October 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Spurred by a plethora of healthcare reform initiatives including meaningful use, health information exchanges (HIEs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), healthcare providers are considering bigger interoperability goals for their integration engine solutions that involve multiple technologies to affect seamless data flow within and between facilities, according to a report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. Interface engines are becoming the hub in which provider organizations are funneling myriad patient data systems in order to leverage existing patient information internally and externally.
September 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At Hunterdon Healthcare, executive leaders are moving forward on a broad range of fronts to implement a variety of initiatives, from the patient-centered medical home model among its physician groups, to health information exchange. And they share what they're learning about the opportunities and challenges to integrated health systems going forward.
July 24, 2012
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According to a recently released survey from the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), healthcare organizations are making consumer engagement a priority, even as they continue to figure out and define their strategies in the area. The survey found that 53 percent of respondents ranked consumer engagement as high or very high in their organization’s priorities.
July 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Experts at a Blueprint Healthcare IT discussion last week warned that the Field of Dreams strategy of "build it and they will come" won't necessarily work when it comes to physician adoption of a health information exchange (HIE). Lack of physician usage of an HIE portal was the No. 1 pitfall when it came to HIEs that was mentioned in the webinar, "Top Ten Ways an HIE Can Go Wrong".
July 5, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In a two-part podcast series, John Moore, Chilmark Research's founder and managing partner, shares highlights of his second annual HIE report. In the first podcast Moore talks about what the Achilles heel of many HIEs is, plus the emergence of the micro-HIE and some prognostications for the public HIE market. In this podcast, he discusses how vendors are modularizing their offerings migrating toward PaaS, platform as a service solutions.
July 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Even as the last of the federal funds earmarked for public health information exchanges (HIEs) run dry this year, rapid growth and evolution continues to define the nascent HIE market, according to a report released by Chilmark Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based analyst firm focusing solely on the healthcare IT market. The report, "2012 HIE Market Report: Analysis and Trends," uncovers a market that is making a significant shift to serving healthcare organizations of all sizes.
June 21, 2012
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The Chicago-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association, a collaboration of 41 electronic health records suppliers, has submitted its response to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) Request for Information (RFI) Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN): Conditions for Trusted Exchange.
June 20, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Not only has Orion Health cornered the public health information exchange (HIE) market in the U.S. and abroad, the healthcare integration and HIE software provider is now making inroads into the private HIE market. Since breaking into the healthcare IT space 18 years ago, the company has built many capabilities on top of its integration product to meet the ever-changing needs of today's healthcare organizations in the throes of meaningful use.
