Health Information Exchanges and HiTech eHealth Directory
In his previous five posts Chad’s discussion of health information exchanges focused on how they can be set up and utilized by a healthcare organization. While HIE architecture types and communication methods typically only involve IT staff, this post by Chad briefly discusses portals, which brings the HIE to the more personal patient and physician levels.
So far in this series Chad has laid the groundwork to give you a basic understanding of Health Information Exchanges. Now that he has defined the What and the Why, this post will discuss How health organizations actually exchange health data with the HIE…….
In the first three posts in this series on Health Information Exchange Chad discussed the different motivators that are driving health organizations to connect to HIEs, the three different HIE architecture types, and the fact that future HIE financial sustainability is a real concern for public exchanges. In this post, Chad describes some common HIE terms that you’re likely to encounter when researching or discussing HIEs.
Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council established ChathamHealthLink, Georgia's first Health Information Exchange. The Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council, Inc (CCSNPC) was formed in 2004 by the Chatham County Commission and since then, has been lead by the Chatham County Health Department as the neutral convener. The council is composed of representatives from both hospital systems, ...
In this video, Robert Connely, Medicity's senior vice president of strategy and innovation, talks about care collaboration to solve basic work problems and workflow challenges via health information exchange (HIE) and how technology is adapting to what people need rather than people adapting to the technology.
In 2011, there were 255 HIE organizations in the U.S., yet only 24 reported that they were financially sustainable. In other words, there are 231 HIEs that are currently not making enough revenue to cover operating expenses. Another key factor is participation – An HIE can have 100% provider participation, but it is worthless if it doesn’t have patient data to exchange. It’s imperative that HIEs receive patients’ consent to exchange their health data with other HIE provider members. HIEs currently employ two different models: the patient opt-in model or the patient opt-out model.
In this video Thomas Deas, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sandlot Solutions, talks about the role of health information exchanges in creating effective accountable care organization models and Sandlot’s physician group collaboration in creating technology to support medical practice needs.
Sandlot Solutions is a healthcare information technology company jointly owned by Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. and North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP) that provides health information exchange (HIE) and data analytics tools and services for streamlining data sharing between providers, hospital systems and health plans in order to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care.
Orion Health Selected by Inland Empire Health Information Exchange – Orion Health™ Health Information Exchange (HIE) provides a platform for exchanging patient information between organizations and across regions to enable a shared view of the patient records and provides a foundation for community care and disease management solutions.
News: Siemens Healthcare announces the acquisition of Health Information Exchange developer, MobileMD. MobileMD provides a cloud-based and four dimensional health information exchange solution. The four dimensional health information exchange includes care, service, economics, and technology. Because it is cloud based, the exchange is flexible and reduces the burden on client systems in hospitals. It has connectors ...
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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