Friday, January 27th, 2012 at
11:30 am
Long-term financial sustainability is probably the most critical challenge facing health information exchange (HIE) initiatives. In its recent report, 2011 Report on Health Information Exchange: Sustainable HIE in a Changing Landscape, eHealth Initiative identified just 24 out of the 196 active HIEs around the country that categorized themselves as sustainable.
This article covers a lot of good points on what sustainability is and how does a health information exchange achieve sustainability. Given the track record for HIE survivability this is not an easy feat. According to Ms. Kolkman, shareholder engagement and participation is the key.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
8:22 pm
In this video, produced by Axolotl you can see how rural health clinics in Shelby County, Tennessee are using EHRs and Health Information Exchanges to ensure providers have the right information at the right place at the right time for the right patient...with tangible benefits.
Memphis Tennessee's Health Information Exchange operates as part of the MidSouth ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
8:09 pm
Congratulations to the Maine Regional Extension Center at HealthInfoNet which has met its enrollment target. It is the first regional extension centers in the country to reach its enrollment target. They are now working to assist a 1000 of Maine’s primary care providers implement an electronic health record, meet meaningful use stage one, and connect to Maine’s statewide health information exchange.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
7:59 pm
New York’s health information exchange and IT framework is built upon common statewide information policies, technical standards, and protocols, as well as regional “bottom-up” implementation approaches and care coordination to allow local communities and regions to structure their own efforts based on clinical and patient priorities.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
7:47 pm
The Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange is one of the oldest and most advanced multi-stakeholder health information exchanges in the country. The clinical network connects a large IPA, two local hospitals, several County Health Clinics, County Detention, Mental Health, seven national and local reference labs, five imaging centers and several safety net clinics.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
6:56 pm
In the fall of 2011, Beacon Partners conducted this original research study to assess the status of healthcare organizations’ participation, or planned participation, in health information exchanges (HIEs).
Beacon Partners has conducted a series of independent studies an effort to understand and present industry challenges related to a host of issues facing healthcare organizations today.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at
4:18 pm
Verizon Unveils Cloud-based Health Information Exchange
Increased federal funding and the recently passed health care legislation have set the stage for wide-spread adoption of health information exchanges. To help health care organizations bridge the silos of clinical data that traditionally exist throughout the health care ecosystem, Verizon is launching Verizon Health Information Exchange, an open-standards cloud-based ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2012 at
4:16 pm
HIPAA's security rule is now final and covered healthcare entities must train their workforce on information security by April 20, 2005. Don't wait until the last minute to train our staff. This video is the perfect training tool for every member of your staff. For more information, please visit hcmarketplace.com
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Friday, January 20th, 2012 at
4:17 am
Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World Tapan Parikh [Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley] Abstract: People living in the rural developing world have many information needs that could, but are not, being met by information technology.
Technologies for this context must be low-cost, accessible to diverse populations and appropriate for the local ...
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