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.
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 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced $1.5 billion in new grants for 11 states to continue building their insurance exchanges.
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.
November 13, 2012 Mark Hagland
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CSC’s Jordan Battani has been following developments around the creation of the state health insurance exchanges under the ACA; she shares her perspectives on the challenges facing state governments going forward—including the intense IT challenges involved
November 12, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report from Washington Business Journal, the Washington D.C. Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) has been shut down due to sustainability issues. The report cites the D.C. Primary Care Organization (DCPCA), the RHIO’s founder and chief advocate, as the source of this news.
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 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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I was fascinated to read the September 17 joint announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that those two federal departments had successfully demonstrated the successful use of metadata tagging in the exchange of patient health data.
August 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Randy Hicks, M.D. and his colleagues at Regional Medical Imaging in Flint, Michigan, are moving ahead to continue to enhance the core IT infrastructure for their imaging center operations. Dr. Hicks sees the future in an interconnected, and very strategic, way.
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 12, 2012
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ONC created the Direct – Laboratory Reporting Workgroup to address the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) requirements for the reporting of clinical laboratory results using Direct Project standards and specifications. The workgroup determined that any electronic reporting method must provide accurate, reliable, confidential and timely delivery of laboratory results from the performing laboratory to the final report destination to meet CLIA requirements. To accomplish this, implementations of Direct specifications must provide the sending laboratory with positive notification of delivery success or failure in a manner consistent with other methods of electronic result delivery currently in use by accredited clinical laboratories.
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.
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