Understanding end users' perspectives towards health information exchange (HIE) technology is crucial to the long-term success of HIE, according to researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., who developed an in-depth understanding of HIE usage by applying qualitative methods.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued a request for information (RFI) to request public comment on draft proposals it's considering in anticipation of developing a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN).
Are state level health information exchanges already obsolete before sprinting out of the gates? Chris Dimick, writer at AHIMA, poses the question in an article published in
Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.
The Markle Foundation has published an addendum to its 2006 Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange (Markle Common Framework), updating a range of issues with information gleaned from the rapid changes made on the health IT front over the past few years.
Claudia Williams, MS, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) state health information exchange (HIE) program, offered a review of the ONC’s progress on HIE and its primary goals for 2012 during the National eHealth Collaborative's webinar on “ONC’s National HIE Strategy.”
Sharing clinical data electronically is a critical challenge for fixing the healthcare system, according to a viewpoint report published this week in the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
In June 2010, Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed an executive order creating the Kansas Health Information Exchange (KHIE), a quasi-public agency to oversee the activities of health information organizations (HIOs) that provide health information exchange (HIE) services in the state.
Widespread hospital support for health information exchange (HIE) and initial deployment only in emergency department (ED) settings can lower overall societal costs and reduce hospital admissions, according to a study published in the May edition of the
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .
ConnectVirginia, the commonwealth’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), is now live with DIRECT Messaging.
Following the results and recommendations of a report from solicited feedback from communities across Colorado focused on the inclusion of behavioral health in health information exchange (HIE), the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization is developing an action plan to include working with project steering committee members and other stakeholder organizations on consumer, provider and policymaker education.
Having access to patients' laboratory test results influences the decision-making process regarding the ordering of further tests, which supports the predictions of financial savings made in the health information exchange (HIE) cost-benefit models, according to an article published in the March 26 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Creating and maintaining a successful and sustainable health information exchange (HIE) initiative is difficult but not impossible, according to an April report from the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC).
The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), a nonprofit organization, has received $600,000 in federal funding to extend access to currentcare, the statewide health information exchange (HIE), to the behavioral health community.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released CONNECT version 3.3., an open source health information exchange tool.
Quality improvement and patient-centered care—two concepts essential to the health reform effort—will require health IT. Current and future physicians must master the minimal competencies required to use health IT if the healthcare system is to reach its quality and cost containment goals, according to an article in the March edition of
Health Affairs.
The Cal eConnect board of directors announced that Ted Kremer has decided to withdraw as CEO and remain at the helm of a local regional health information organization in Rochester, N.Y. This announcement comes only two weeks after teh board announced Kremer's appointment.
In 2012 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will advance the growth and spread of health information exchange (HIE) by specifying the next layer of core standards and policies, according to the agency itself in an article published in the March edition of
Health Affairs.
By leaving out ineligible providers in reform efforts, the nation risks building a new digital divide where key providers, who already have low levels of electronic clinical data, may fall further behind, according to an article published in the March edition of
Health Affairs.
The Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech) in Fort Wayne will begin offering an online associate’s program in health IT in July.
National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, told one of his predecessors, David J. Brailer, MD, that health IT is “on the move” and quantitative outcomes are on the way in the U.S. in an interview published in the March issue of
Health Affairs.
