Health Information Exchanges and HiTech eHealth Directory
Hawaii officials have selected Utah-based Medicity to develop the infrastructure for what will ultimately be a statewide health information exchange and electronic medical record system as Hawaii moves ahead with a key mandate of federal health-care reform.
What do you get when two companies that have yet to prove their capabilities in healthcare information technology decide to get married?
A Caradigm!
What are your thoughts on this joint venture? How long do you think this marriage will last?
REDMOND, Wash., and BARRINGTON, Ill.— Feb. 13, 2012 — General Electric Co. (GE), through its healthcare IT business, and Microsoft Corp. today announced several developments for their planned 50-50 joint venture, including the intention to demonstrate future product capabilities at HIMSS12, the year’s largest healthcare IT trade show, later this month. The new company, to be named Caradigm™, is expected to launch in the first half of 2012, pending regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
The Camden Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a web-based technology that offers Camden city and regional healthcare providers access to important medical information for Camden patients. The HIE facilitates sharing of detailed clinical data among the primary hospitals, physician practices, laboratory and radiology groups in Camden, along with regional hospitals and healthcare institutions. As a result, healthcare providers will have the clinical information they need about their patients at the immediate point of care, which will reduce unnecessary duplication and foster improved care coordination.
PacServ is a provider of HEDIS Quality of Care Audits along with paper to electronic Medical Record (MR) file conversions and they have been in business for over a decade. They are subject matter experts when it comes to MR content and provide high volume MR scanning and conversion services.
This video is on Health Information Exchanges and a perspective on how they can readily help improve patient care.
This is a story of a traveling musician and can remind us of the need for quick and easy access to personal medical data, especially in a place where nobody knows you (which is almost everywhere).
What’s preventing the way of the wide spread adoption of health Information Technology? Quite a few things, according to a recent report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. One of the issues is around the use of health information exchanges.
The report has some great info in it. Speaking from my experiences, the biggest obstacle is not just a lack of money, its that we in healthcare I.T. already have 348,000 project we are working on and they are all priority 1.
Well it’s nice to hear a success story about a college grad getting a job. What’s remarkable about this story is that most hospitals refuse to hire healthcare I.T. folks unless they have years of healthcare experience and/or specific vendor experience. Most of the students that graduate from these programs do not have this experience, and though they spend a lot of time getting an education, they still face a tough time getting a job.
One of the toughest issues is getting by the robots in the human resources department that only know how to screen candidates based on “keywords” in a resume. Plus, all the lousy software, like Taleo, they are using only allows recruiters to search resumes on specific keywords. Thus, hospitals are missing a lot of good candidates due to their automated systems and their myopic… “You don’t have Epic experience” or “You don’t have any healthcare experience”. Hockey Puck I say!!!!
Maine is one of five states each receiving a $600,000 grant to support sharing of electronic health records among behavioral and medical health providers.
Awarded by the Center for Integrated Health Solutions, the grant will help 25 behavioral health organizations and 200 Maine providers to securely share medical records, including through the use of HealthInfoNet, the state’s electronic health information exchange, according to a press release from HealthInfoNet.
The video is over the top and professionally done by Axolotyl for the Health Information Partnership for Tennessee. HIPTN’s mission is to improve access to health information through a statewide collaborative process by providing services and infrastructure for the secure electronic exchange and use of health information. Their vision to be the recognized state and national leader that supports measureable improvement in clinical quality and efficiency to healthcare consumers, providers, and payors through the provision of secure HIE services.
InterSystems Corporation, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that InterSystems HealthShare™ has been chosen to support health information exchange (HIE) throughout Denmark. I tried to locate a website for the Danish NSI and came up with http://www.sst.dk/. If you can read Danish you’ll just fine. I don’t.
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