July 5, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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CHIME submitted comments this week to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, responding to the agency’s vision for nationwide health information exchange. ONC officials in May released a Request for Information (RFI) that sought feedback on how to establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN).
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.
June 18, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The Wyoming Department of Health is using its no-cost electronic health record (EHR) program as a platform to build a sophisticated central database to manage the health of its Medicaid population effectively and use the information to effect policy changes. Earlier this month, The Wyoming Department of Health announced that it is the first state to offer a free, fully certified EHR to Medicaid providers in the state.
June 15, 2012
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According to a new study from researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), EHRs are widely used by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet meaningful use standards. The research report says while 71 percent of California physicians have an EHR system, only 30 percent have one with the functionalities needed to achieve meaningful use requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS).
May 31, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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HealthInfoNet and some of Maine's largest healthcare organizations will begin piloting the nation's first statewide medical image archive to reduce the cost of storage and transport of electronic medical images and share these images through the health information exchange (HIE). HealthInfoNet has shared radiological reports for several years, says Todd Rogow, director of information technology at HealthInfoNet, but it was clearly a clinician-led effort to get images into the central archive.
May 24, 2012 David Raths
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On May 15 the Office of the National Coordinator published a Request for Information (RFI) on governance of the nationwide health information network (NwHIN). At their May 24 meeting, Health IT Standards Committee members debated some of the fine points involved in setting up another accreditation and validation system to make trusted exchange of health data easier. If ONC’s basic framework is adopted, CIOs may have to add at least two new acronyms to their vocabulary: CTE (Conditions for Trusted Exchange) and NVE (NwHIN-Validated Entity).
May 21, 2012 The Editors of Healthcare Informatics
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Healthcare Informatics, a New York City-based magazine providing leadership and strategy for healthcare IT leaders, is proud to officially announce the 2012 version of its unique, industry offering: the Healthcare Informatics 100, a compilation of the top health IT companies based on HIT revenues from the most recent fiscal year. For this year’s list, McKesson Technology Solutions (Alpharetta, Ga.), was the top ranked company, marking the fifth year in a row that the diversified healthcare IT software solutions vendor has sat atop the list.
May 10, 2012
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According to a research report from Cambridge, Mass.-based Chilmark Research rapid growth and evolution will continue to define the nascent health information exchange (HIE) market, even though federal funds earmarked for them have begun to run dry this year. The report, 2012 HIE Market Report: Analysis and Trends, says the market is making a significant shift to serving healthcare organizations (HCOs) of all sizes – an enterprise market.
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.
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.
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