December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
blog
Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
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 7, 2012 David Raths
blog
Health Story is supporting a project team within HL7 that is working to create a standard for “Patient Authored Documents” using the HL7 CDA standard.
October 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
article
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.
October 8, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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A pilot is now underway to demonstrate that sensitive health transactions on the Internet can earn patient and physician trust by using a trust network built around privacy-enhancing encryption technology to provide secure, multifactor, on-demand identity proofing, and authentication across multiple sectors.
October 2, 2012
news
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is calling for improved and unified health information governance to standardize EHR use, the non-profit advocacy organization recently announced. The group said it is ready to work with healthcare industry providers, health plans, quality organizations, and vendors as well as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish standards so that healthcare providers have clear principles to guide their patient documentation.
October 1, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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A new digital technology has been developed by researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine to allow unaffiliated institutions to transfer medical images, thus avoiding the hassle of CDs. Could the PCARE system offer a model for others to follow?
October 1, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Thanks to the rampant digitization of healthcare data, breaches have become commonplace in an industry that lacks advanced security practices. In this industry-wide report, those who have dealt with breaches implore others to shore up internal security practices and be transparent. As one CIO keenly notes, “we’re all in this together.”
July 17, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
blog
Much important work is currently underway to develop vocabulary, packaging, and transport standards for health information exchange (HIE), according to last week’s National eHealth Collaborative ONC Anniversary Event, which highlighted the collaborative work of the Beacon Communities and seven EHR companies (NextGen, Greenway, GE, Allscripts, Vitera, Cerner and SuccessEHS) that are working together to accelerate interoperability and exchange.
June 18, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In a recent piece for the New England Journal of Medicine, two Boston Children’s Hospital informatics researchers, Kenneth Mandl, M.D. and Isaac Kohane, M.D., make the argument that EHR vendors are holding back innovation in the health IT industry. In part two of their two-part interview, Dr. Mandl spoke with HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna in depth about standards and interoperability and how government mandates has affected EHR innovation.
June 15, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In a recent piece for the New England Journal of Medicine, two Boston Children’s Hospital informatics researchers, Kenneth Mandl, M.D. and Isaac Kohane, M.D., make the argument that EHR vendors are holding back innovation in the health IT industry. In a two-part interview, HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna recently spoke with Mandl about the assertion, why he says EHR vendors are afraid of interoperability, and why they shouldn’t be.
May 23, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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At an invite-only event held in Washington this week, CHIME members, federal officials and other health IT stakeholders met at the Bipartisan Policy Center to discuss the issue of patient matching. The briefing was well attended with leading CHIME members, foundation firms and top officials from CMS and ONC looking at various approaches to accurate patient matching.
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