The company that won the ONC's Blue Button mashup and innovation challenge has released a cross-platform version of the app, seeking to fill current gaps in patient-doctor information exchange.
Previously intended for Nashville, the HIMSS Innovation Center will be within the Global Center for Health Innovation, and it will house the Interoperability Showcase.
Both the phrase and a Twitter hashtag pertain to the current firestorm around electronic health records, the vendors, and the meaningful use incentive program.
Oregon's redesigned Medicaid program has been called "an accountable care organization on steroids," because of its ambitious savings and quality improvement goals. As researchers look to Oregon for a sense of how ACOs will perform nationwide, information technologies will be one of the key factors in how Oregon ACOs fare.
Industry association tells ONC committee that it is "crucial to address data quality and record integrity now before health information exchanges become widespread."
Group says that joining gives federal and state agencies the chance to benefit from industry best practices and a voice in the future of health IT policy.
State-based all payer claims databases have the potential to inform consumers while helping reform healthcare delivery and payment, and some are being integrated with HIEs.
A new survey published by AHIMA and HIMSS found that, among participating organizations, 45 percent are looking to hire health IT professionals. Here's a breakdown of the most sought-after positions.
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I am privileged to work with the ONC and six different states that are responding to the Consumer Innovation Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is to rapidly create a project that will provide patients with access to their health information within six months.
At a time when the value and sustainability of public health information exchanges (HIEs) are being questioned, Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE), which plans to go live on April 1, is making a case for both.