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…….
Published in November 2010, this report by InformationWeek.com presents a number of strategies that are required to achieve success in the health information exchange realm.
The presentation covers – Why HIEs are succeeding where previous ones failed.
Here’s how four of them are getting doctors to share patient data to improve care and cut costs.
Louisiana Rural Health Information
HealthBridge
Michiana Health Information Network
Chesapeake Regional Information System
Highmark is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association based in Pittsburgh and they just announced they are working with New York-based Verizon to construct a health information exchange. Insurance companies controlling health information exchanges is a major concern of mine. What do you think they are going to do with all that patient data?????????
Financing Research and Framework Development for a Health Information Exchange.
This video webinar was produced by HITECH Answers, www.hitechanswers.net. It reviews some of the possible scenarios in establishing the framework for a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Health Information Exchanges (HIE) are a key part of Electronic Health Record adoption and achieving the goals of the HITECH Act. The exchange must be secure and between authorized stakeholders in the healthcare community.
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).
CapSite will be presenting an overview of Health Information Exchange (HIE) market along with key findings from their recently published 2011 Health Information Exchange (HIE) Study at Zirmed’s upcoming Thrive User Conference
4medica claims to be the nation's leading provider of cloud-based clinical data exchange, which provides clinicians with a unified, real-time view of patient information across disparate care locations. The company's flagship clinical integration platform, Integrated Health Record (IHR), builds upon organizations' existing technologies to supply the exact level of health connectivity needed to address meaningful use ...
eHealth Initiatives releases its 2011 Toolkit and it is worth it for you to read it. "199 Health Information Exchanges completed the 2010 eHealth Initiative survey on the state of health information exchange. The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) ...
NHIN HIE News Health IT – HHS Buzz
HIE News AlertsPage optimized by WP Minify WordPress Plugin