Hoag Enabled Health Information Exchange

Hoag has launched a Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program – the Hoag HIE.

Hoag is a not-for-profit regional healthcare delivery network in Orange County, Calif. that treats nearly 30,000 inpatients and 350,000 outpatients annually. Hoag consists of two acute-care hospitals, seven health centers and a network for more than 1,300 physicians, 5,000 employees and 2,000 volunteers.

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California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization (CalHIPSO) Overview

CalHIPSO is one of 62 federally-designated Regional Extension Centers around the country and provides REC services to all of California except Los Angeles and Orange County. CalHIPSO is made up of ten Local Extension Centers (LECs) around the state that bring health information technology (HIT) expertise to local communities.

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PacServ – EMR Documentation

PacServ - EMR Documentation

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.

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ENT Physician and 24 years of converted records - Electronic Health Records

How hard is it to digitize our health records? James Williams (Discovery News) answers that question with a trip to an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, Dr. Morris Effron.

He is in the middle of converting 24 years of charts to his electronic medical record system.

The software he is using is from Greenway Medical Technologies, which I hear is a pretty good system.

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Indiana Health Information Exchange Videos

The Indiana Health Information Exchange may operate the nation’s largest health information exchange (although the Maine HealthInfoNet makes the same claim). The following videos show how IHIE is partnering with communities throughout Indiana to make sure health information on time and where needed in order to improve care coordination and patient outcomes.

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Exchange Clinical Information: Export to a CCR - Practice Fusion EMR

Export a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) from your Practice Fusion EHR. A Completely Free Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Practice Fusion's Electronic Medical Record system is 100% free because it is ad supported.  You can get a version without ads for a 100 buckaroos per month.  Licensing, hosting, training and support services are all included.

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Arizona Health Information Exchange: Four Part Video Overview Series

Here are four videos that present the Arizona Health Information Exchanges' organizational, technical and operational plans.  It is an informative set of videos that delve into some of the operational parts, which I appreciated. Health Information Exchange Part 1 of 4 Of the nearly $1 billion, HHS provided $386 million in grant awards to 40 states to ...

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The Future of Meaningful - William Petasnick

Meaningful Use NOW speaker Bill Petasnick of Wisconsin’s Froedtert Health System argues that the best way to unify health IT platforms across various organizations may be to use an open source, open-architecture solution. But, how many organizations are willing to consider an open source set of programs? It seems like most organizations would rather pay vendors ...

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Puerto Rico Regional Extension Center (Spanish Version)

Dr. Joxel Garcia of the Puerto Rico Regional Extension Center discusses how EHRs help improve care, specifically among underserved patients.

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Texas Regional Extension Center EHR Incentives

In this video, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) provides an in-depth look at the steps Texas physicians are taking to earn electronic health record (EHR) incentives. For physicians who qualify, reaching meaningful use can mean up to $63,750 in incentives from Medicaid or $44,000 from Medicare through the 2009 ARRA Stimulus. Medicare incentives are ...

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