Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 07:38
Markle Connecting for Health offers and outstanding document that specifies the technical architecture for communicating protected health information between health information exchanges and the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
The architecture and messaging standards discussed in this article make up a part of Markle Connecting for Health’s Common Framework. The framwork is a proposed collection of technical standards and policies designed to make it possible to build a NHIN. The framework supports an implementation approach that is effective and achievable in incremental steps and supports confidentiality and security of health record concerns.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 09:29
Markle Connecting for Health has released a wide-ranging compendium of resources designed to further support the interoperable, private, and secure sharing of health information. Markle offers these resources to address some of the key issues and concerns that they have heard expressed by those implementing health information sharing efforts at the local, state and regional levels.
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 15:07
The National eHealth Collaborative has just published the paper “Health Information Exchange Roadmap – The Landscape and a Path Forward” – April 2012.
The paper gives a good perspective on the potential for health information exchanges and how Meaningful Use and HITECH incentives have really jump started the movement. Great progress has been made to support the formation of HIEs and to ensure that benefits to patients become a reality.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 18:36
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) has named The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide its 2011 Book of the Year. I have not yet purchased the book due to its high price. HIMSS publishes the book so I am sure it is high quality, but HIMSS likes to price things extravagantly high because they think everyone has corporate expense accounts and they have to protect their lofty ego. Expect to pay $78.00 or $65.00 (if you are a HIMSS member. It is not yet available on Amazon or other online book sellers.
If you get the book, let me know what you think.
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 13:14
Informatics for Consumer Health (ICH) is working to spread information about the resources available through Informatics for Consumer Health (ICH). The mission of ICH is to empower providers, entrepreneurs and researchers to engage with each other and move the conversation around technology’s role in managing personal health forward. The primary objective is to bridge the gap between healthcare and information technology by providing a knowledge base to foster collaborations and partnerships among public and private stakeholders to stimulate behavioral research and evidence based product development.
It seems that most of the focus on health care technology has been spend on the providers and payers, but little on the consumer end of things. ICH is working to change that.
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 16:50
CHICAGO AND DALLAS, Feb. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a union of two iconic American brands, the American Medical Association (AMA) and AT&T* have formed a strategic alliance that will enable hundreds of thousands of physicians, physician organizations and medical societies nationwide to connect and collaborate with hospitals, payers and patients to help enhance patient care and reduce costs.
The organizations will integrate AMA’s AMAGINE(TM) physician community portal for physicians with AT&T Healthcare Community Online, creating an advanced collaborative care and Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) platform. By combining the platforms, both powered by Covisint, physicians will have more tools at their fingertips to modernize the management of their practices.
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 16:40
ATLANTA, March 1, 2010 – The American Medical Association (AMA) and Dell announced today that they are collaborating to help physicians adopt useful health information technology such as electronic medical records (EMR), ePrescribing, and laboratory services through the AMA’s new health information solutions platform for physicians, which will launch nationally later this year.
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 09:49
The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup is a consortium of States and Electronic Health Record vendors that was formed with the goal of increasing the adoption of EHRs and Health Information Exchange services by eliminating the significant “interface” cost and time barrier. The workgroup members have collaborated to leverage existing standards and provide guidance around specific implementations for the ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 15:20
Aurion 4.1 Released to Open Source Community
Alembic Foundation’s Aurion Project Delivers Newest Version of Open Source Software that Enhances Scalability and Performance and Expands Platform Neutrality
FAIRFAX, VA. (October 20, 2011) – The Alembic Foundation today announced that the open source volunteers participating in the Aurion Project have released Aurion 4.1 to the ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 20:44
On June 28, 2011, National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) brought together 12 Health Information Exchange (HIE) Leaders from around the US for the HIE Leaders Roundtable in Washington, DC.
The HIE Leaders represented a diverse group of operational HIE organizations that are implementing innovative strategies and business models, providing value to their communities, and achieving sustainability.
The Roundtable ...
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