Health Information Exchange (HIE)

 
'Ready to lead,' Berwick announces run for Mass. governor
June 18, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
The former CMS administrator and Harvard professor explained that even Massachusetts healthcare system is "not going to be sustainable without major changes and improvements," and that will be part of his political platform.
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What I heard at the Government Health IT Conference
June 18, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Amid a fifth IT revolution and the rise of mobile health, the federal government is working to reform the U.S. healthcare market while digitizing medicine, doing so slowly but steadily.
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Big Data to put immense IT demands on ACOs and HIEs
June 17, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
The future of healthcare depends on data and the technologies to make use of it, experts said at the Government Health IT Conference last week. And while it won't happen overnight, a fistful of current trends are driving the industry in that direction.
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MHS, Navy CIOs open up about iEHR
June 14, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Facing ongoing and intense public scrutiny about its joint iEHR with the VA, more recent decisions to evaluate commercial options, and perceived absence from similar projects, such as Healtheway, OSEHRA and VLER, the top tech officials discuss challenges of balancing legacy systems with modernization.
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NSTIC: Making a case for Trusted IDs and HIE
June 12, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Declaring the dynamic duo of username and password to be broken, James Sheire of National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace explains how the a trusted ID ecosystem could enable HIE while making patient data more secure.
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VA CIO shares forthcoming open source contributions
June 12, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Acting CIO Stephen Warren discussed the "tremendous value" that engaging the opens source community has for the VA, and what it plans to give back in the near future.
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3 patient engagement lessons
June 12, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Finding the right technology for patient segments, "beer and pretzel" communication and explanation of consent forms from trusted clinicians are three engagement strategies that worked for some Beacon Communities.
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Fridsma: Create standards with eye on future
June 11, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The ONC's director of the Office of Science and Technology told the Government Health IT Conference to consider how technical standards can help solve future healthcare challenges, such as boosting EHR use in clinical research.
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EHR Association puts forth vendor Code of Conduct
June 11, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
Already drawing praise, the EHRA's Developer Code of Conduct is now up to individual companies to adopt.
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HIMSS to unveil HIT value model
June 11, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
At the Government Health IT Conference, executive vice president Carla Smith foretells a new offering HIMSS plans to launch next month that measures the ROI of health IT investments, considering more components than just the financial.
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Q&A: John Glaser's 4 facets of patient engagement
June 10, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Previewing his session at the Government Health IT Conference, Tuesday and Wednesday, Siemens Health Services CEO John Glaser discusses IT ramifications in the era of accountability, patient engagement, and what he learned in a clinical trial.
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At Health Datapalooza, Bush calls for more CMS data
June 10, 2013 |
Erin McCann
It was a colorful show, with big speeches from Jonathan Bush, Atul Gawande, and Kathleen Sebelius, among others.
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Best Practices for Monitoring Data Quality: Improve Database Effectiveness with Accurate Data
June 3, 2013 | White Papers
Data accuracy is a major area of focus for most organizations. Despite the overall advances in analytics and business intelligence, most agencies struggle with data accuracy. According to a 2013 Experian QAS survey, 94 percent of organizations believe there is some level of inaccuracy within their systems. To prevent inaccuracies in improve database performance and reporting, it's more important than ever for agencies to monitor data quality.
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Enabling Data as a Service in Healthcare
April 24, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
Join this webinar to learn how Delphix can accelerate IT projects in healthcare while improving application quality and reducing infrastructure costs.
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The VNA Strategy: Balancing Workflow and Enterprise Imaging Management
April 16, 2013 | White Papers
As healthcare providers implement health IT to comply with federal mandates and participate in quality of care programs, VNA solutions can play a critical role in helping them meet their needs today and in their future IT initiatives. Forward-thinking healthcare providers around the world are already successfully meeting this challenge with VNA. Download this Healthcare IT News eBook to learn how VNA enables exchange, supports data consolidation and IT simplification.
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Are You Truly ACA Compliant? Incorporating the Correct Public Records Data Into Your Workflow
April 12, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
In this one hour webinar, Thomson Reuters and Verisys will outline several key areas of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and screening requirements. An overview of available public records data as well as strengths and weaknesses of various datasets will be discussed. We invite an open discussion to elaborate on the efficiencies that can be seen when the correct data is applied to the compliance workflow.
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Accelerate Healthcare Reform with Information Technology
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The current agenda is clear: wherever possible, reduce costs and improve quality-of-care services. These directives are in perfect alignment with the role of virtual and cloud computing infrastructure technologies, which help to lower costs and increase clinician productivity while future-proofing IT investments. As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. It will determine the ease or di!culty of updating existing applications and managing new ones. It will also serve as a foundation to help ensure that all healthcare services are secure, accessible and easy enough for citizens to access and use.
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Easier Ways for PACS/RIS End Users to Manage Applications and Desktop Environments
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
This report provides information on some of the challenges PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) end-users face in the healthcare space, and how virtualization and point of care solutions can help address those challenges. In this paper, we discuss what the challenges are and present a strategy of utilizing architecture for PACS/RIS client access, which supports the needs of end users and makes it easier for IT staff to manage applications and desktop environments.
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Your Cloud in Healthcare - How to Use the Cloud to Achieve Greater Business Agility
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The healthcare sector is adopting enterprise hybrid cloud across the provider, payer, and life sciences segments with the goal of improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and increasing responsiveness to risk. This industry brief goes over some results of the CIO Global Cloud Computing Adoption Study, a recent survey by IDG Research, and outlines the common hybrid cloud use cases for healthcare organizations. It also details a real-world example of how cloud computing is being used to achieve greater business agility.
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New World Order: Effectively Securing Healthcare Data Through Secure Information Exchanges
December 12, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare is dominated by the need for the sharing of detailed patient information as a result of today's information age. But it's also the focal point of the debate of how information is shared versus protecting the need for privacy, security and confidentiality. Data protection is paramount in today’s virtual environment and implementing a Secure Information Exchange (SIE) now will help organizations save both themselves and their patients down the road.
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Taming Complexity: A New Solution for In-House Healthcare EDI
November 13, 2012 | White Papers
If Hospitals and Providers are the body of the healthcare industry, Healthcare Electronic Data Interchange is the heartbeat. This whitepaper compares the different solutions and costs for achieving HIPAA-compliant EDI, explains the specific technical challenges in the way of successful implementations, and explores new avenues for bridging the gap to an in-house implementation.
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Advanced Text Mining Improves Medicare Advantage Coding
November 9, 2012 | White Papers
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are private health plans that have contracted with Medicare to receive a fixed monthly fee in exchange for providing comprehensive healthcare to plan members. In order to provide appropriate care to beneficiaries with varying medical conditions, plans are paid according to the Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score of each patient. Insufficient documentation of chronic conditions can be an obstacle to MA reimbursement. However, even when a condition has been properly documented by the provider, it is often not coded and submitted to Medicare. Read this white paper to learn how to take the complexity out of MA reimbursement.
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Sizing Up Your Cloud Options - Is Now the Time?
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare Cloud Computing and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.
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QualSight LASIK Achieves HIPAA Compliance After Attempted Hack
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
In January 2010, QualSight - the nation’s largest LASIK manager serving over 75 million health plan members - was informed that a hack attempt had been made against their infrastructure. They were concerned that a repeat occurrence could take place and wanted to take a pro-active role in eliminating any future occurrence. QualSight began searching for a better solution for its secure Web hosting and online data storage. The company had stringent requirements for both HIPAA and PCI compliance, and could not find a hosting provider with a fully managed solution that took into account both of those high industry standards, while also providing top performance. Download this case study to find out how QualSight finally found a solution that offered complete HIPAA compliancy.
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Will the data tsunami turn into a windfall for patients?
June 14, 2013 |
David Lareau

Headlines are filled with reports of big data projects. But the one thing we really need to keep in mind is digestibility of all that information.
Tagalicod: New world is in sight
June 12, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Rob Tagalicod shared CMS visions for the future of e-Health with conference attendees, as well as the current mega-trends to support those.
HIMSS touts Innovation Center
June 11, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Calling it a physical destination for testing interoperability, HIMSS executive vice president Carla Smith
Why vendors should participate in HIT rule making
June 5, 2013 |
Kat McDavitt
ONC has made it easy for stakeholders of all stripes to keep up on the process, rather than being completely blindsided by new regulations.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 30, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... DoD's VLER and HIE challenges ahead, how iEHR is like eating an elephant, and feds on the hunt for public feedback.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 24, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: EHRs under fire once again, data breaches, and Mostashari spotlights the Beacon Communities.
Welcome to Future Care
May 21, 2013 |
Benjamin Harris
Future Care, a new HIMSS media site, will be a reservoir of news and analysis – all centered on the future of our healthcare landscape.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 17, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
EHR, OMB, Cloud-First and FDCCI all under the gun ... This week in Government Health IT.
HIMSS Media launches Future Care to highlight new models
May 16, 2013 |
Benjamin Harris
Because the "future of care will call us to convene differently" the new site will focus on analytics, cognitive support, and coordination of care.
On EHR data integrity: A patient's perspective
May 14, 2013 |
Deborah Kohn
The time has come to tackle integrity of health information, not just the technical and operational mechanisms for the sending and receiving it, particularly as EHR kinks get ironed out both among internal users and the patients they serve.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 2, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This week in Government Health IT: Reports expose state and local governments as ill-prepared, whether that be for Big Data or cyber-attacks. Also, think tanks talk patient-centered care for cost-savings.
Looking ahead to ONC committee work
April 17, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
In the coming months, the ONC Standards Committee is going to hear updates from workgroups on a variety of software and policy standards for issues like structured data, genomics representation and modular application integration.