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Written by Mary Stevens
Certification standards have been clarified in the meaningful use final rule, and when possible, standards allow “flow-through” from meaningful use requirements, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), speaking at the July 27 HIT Standards Committee meeting.
Written by Mary Stevens
To move the Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NHIN) from a set of broad policies to production systems, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) must translate strategy into operational actions, according to Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC. Fridsma made his comments during a presentation with Arien Malec, coordinator for the NHIN Direct, ONC.
“It’s difficult to separate health information exchange from the matter of trust,” said Steven Gravely, JD, a partner at the law firm of Troutman Sanders, at a webinar titled “Multi-party legal agreements for HIE” during the recent National eHealth Collaborative's Stakeholder Forum.
Five Michigan hospital systems—Lakeland Health System, Metro Health, Northern Michigan Regional Health System, Spectrum Health and Trinity Health—have established Michigan Health Connect, a statewide health information exchange (HIE).
Vangent has entered a strategic partnership with Orion Health that will leverage Vangent’s information management and strategic business process services and Orion’s experience in designing, implementing and operating a secure health information exchange.
Written by Mary Stevens
The vast amount of healthcare information now being generated could be the greatest asset available in improving patient care. However, to do the most good, this information must be effectively exchanged—and delivered securely—among more stakeholders than ever before.
A team of Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students took the top three awards in the recent NHIN CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge in Miami.
The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is a set of policy standards and services that enable the internet to secure meaningful exchange to achieve the objectives of the HITECH Act. However, this “network of networks” won’t succeed unless trust is built into every facet of the information exchange, said Mariann Yeager, NHIN Policy and Governance Lead at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and Steven Gravely, JD, a partner at the law firm of Troutman Sanders, during a recent webinar.
Written by Mary Stevens
The Health IT Standards Committee is charged with identifying and mapping the standards that will enable a functional Nationwide Health Information Network. This is a challenging mission, but it’s a crucial piece of a 21st century approach to medicine, Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, chairman of the ONC’s Health IT Standards Committee and president of clinical services and chief medical officer of Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., recently told CMIO.
A "natural evolution" in National Health Information Network (NHIN) capabilities to support a variety of health information exchange (HIE) needs is being reinforced by trends that are leading toward widespread multi-point interoperability, stated David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health IT, in a statement last week.
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Harris has released an open-source CONNECT installation wizard to reduce the time required to link healthcare organizations to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, the state-designated entity for Maryland’s health information exchange (HIE), has selected Axolotl's technology as the infrastructure for the state's HIE.
The third CONNECT Code-A-Thon convened recently at Florida International University in Miami. The Federal Health Architecture's open source development event drew a range of participants, demonstrating the growing interest in CONNECT.
Vish Sankaran, program director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Federal Health Architecture, is leaving the program within the next several weeks “to seek other opportunities.”
Harris Healthcare Solutions has released Connect 2.4, the latest version of its Connect software, to enable healthcare organizations to exchange patient information on the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently lanched the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Direct Project, an initiative that aims to create an easy-to-use process for relatively simple, local health information exchanges. Leading the project is Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC, who spoke with CMIO about the NHIN Direct initiative.
The Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS10 in Atlanta earlier this month boasted a record number of vendors, more products working together and more scenarios than ever, on nearly an acre of show floor real estate. It shows the evolution of interoperability from a far-away ideal to live, viable options in support of improved patient care, says Lisa Spellman, MBA, CPHIMS, HIMSS senior director of informatics, and secretary, HIMSS-sponsored Domains, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.