Tag: HIE

December 20, 2018

New data show that although hospitals are using electronic methods to exchange summary of care records, they are still using paper. A majority of hospitals last year used more than one electronic method to routinely send (78 percent) and receive […]

November 15, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has added $350 million to its cost estimates for the VA’s electronic health record modernization program—an increase that isn’t sitting well with members of Congress. According to the latest VA data provided to Congress, the […]

May 4, 2018

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have issued guidance to help providers apply Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 2 to healthcare settings, including the […]

February 15, 2018

While blockchain has a number of potentially promising healthcare applications, including the management of electronic health records, the technology has certain pitfalls that may inhibit its utility. That’s the message delivered on Wednesday to lawmakers by Chris Jaikaran, a cybersecurity […]

January 22, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has proposed a new rule making it easier for the VA to share patient records with community healthcare providers, health plans, governmental agencies and other entities participating in health information exchanges. The proposed rule, published […]

January 19, 2018

The challenge of making progress toward the interoperability of healthcare information systems will be one of the key challenges facing a newly formed advisory group that held its first meeting on Thursday. The 30-member panel is charged with several tasks, […]

January 18, 2018

The new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, charged under the 21st Century Cures Act with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for HIT on the implementation of healthcare infrastructure, will hold its inaugural meeting Thursday. The 30-member HITAC, which replaces […]

January 16, 2018

New trends accelerate change within healthcare IT Various experts in healthcare IT expect the pressure will grow on healthcare information technology to achieve measureable benefits over the next 12 months. We queried several key knowledge experts in the field and […]

January 5, 2018

Are patients less likely to be hospitalized if emergency departments have access to their complete medical record via health information exchange? Scientists at the Indianapolis, Ind.-based Regenstrief Institute are conducting the first study of health information exchange (HIE) use over […]

December 1, 2017

The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars incentivizing hospitals and physicians around the country to adopt electronic health record systems. However, taxpayers have not gotten what they paid for, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Donald […]

July 5, 2017

With the Fourth of July recess, we have a momentary respite in the race to pass legislation to make some monumental changes in the way the country apportions responsibility for services given to sick people. I resist the impulse to […]

May 31, 2017

If there was just one thing I could tell our healthcare clients about using CDs for medical image exchange, it’s that there is a better way. Talking about the transition from CDs to electronic image transfer solutions is an important […]

February 15, 2017

The DirectTrust secure messaging initiative created by industry stakeholders is asking electronic health records companies and other health information technology vendors to up their game. Use of the DirectTrust secure messaging protocols has been ramping up over the years, but […]

February 10, 2017

HealthWest, a community mental health organization serving Muskegon County in west Michigan, recently selected its fourth electronic health record system, a move predicated on better supporting patients and the staff during the era of accountable and value-based care. The organization […]

February 7, 2017

Emergency medical services represents the No. 1 referral source for most hospitals, says Peter Antevy, MD, medical director at Davie Fire Rescue and a pediatric emergency department physician at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Fla. Too often, information between […]

January 13, 2017

Application programming interfaces give access to data created by others, enabling a computer programmer or someone working on a computer to call up another program and get it to do a particular task, explains Brian Murphy, an industry analyst at […]

December 19, 2016

Telemedicine proponents, no doubt, are pinching themselves. After many years of promoting the concept and helping the technology advance to its current state of sophistication, it appears to be nearing the Promised Land. Professional organizations and payers are giving telemedicine […]

November 9, 2016

The American Medical Informatics Association has released guidance on laboratory interoperability that includes core public policy, principles and positions. The guidance comes from a November 8 presentation at the National Institutes of Health by Gil Alterovitz, director of the biomedical […]

October 25, 2016

In setting the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a determined effort to simplify requirements that will revamp physician reimbursement to reflect quality and efficiency of care. For […]

October 11, 2016

Gartner Group has just released its 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. Here’s a look at the top 14 companies, and what each has to offer. The Leaders “Leaders in the data integration tool market are front-runners in […]