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Q&A: 3M on how Open HDD and VA, DoD iEHR will trigger innovation
May 16, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Jon Lindekugel, president of 3M Health Information Systems, speaks with Government Health IT about the newly open sourced health data dictionary and its potential implications for improving healthcare. Hint: Accurate, consistent, and complete clinical documentation.
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HHS tool to track nation's healthcare performance
May 15, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
Healthcare measures come from existing publicly available datasets and can be viewed by factors such as age, income level and ethnicity.
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ONC seeks comments on NwHIN road rules
May 11, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
ONC will use comments it receives to help develop a proposed rule on governing the nationwide health information network.
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Hawaii and Virginia state HIEs switch on Direct messaging
April 10, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
CORHIO is preparing to draft a plan to add behavioral health data to the Colorado HIE with more granular patient consent options.
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CGI ships new version of CONNECT Gateway for NwHIN Exchange
April 5, 2012 |
Mike Miliard
CGI Federal aims to make it easier for healthcare organizations to deploy and use the open source software for secure exchange of health data.
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HIEs innovate around providers' lack of standards
April 3, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
Inland and Rhode Island HIEs overcome hurdles of sharing with disparate EHRs, customization, and various data sets to supply patient analytics.
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How to harness big data for improving public health
April 3, 2012 |
Roger Foster
A tidal wave of health data is flooding government agencies. Here are 5 ways to use big data to reduce redundancies and unnecessary expenses while achieving better care outcomes that bolster population health.
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Coast Guard prepares to roll out EHR
April 2, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
Coast Guard seeks service desk support for its integrated EHR system for project management and security, and also plans to join NwHIN Exchange.
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NeHC charts course to HIE
April 2, 2012 |
Bernie Monegain
The public-private National eHealth Collaborative works to accelerate progress toward health information exchange and its benefits for patient care.
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IOM to CDC and HRSA: Bridge private and public health
April 2, 2012 |
Diana Manos
Aligning private healthcare and public health entities is a daunting task, to be certain, but the Institute of Medicine says that it would strengthen both.
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VA eyes two hospitals to use iEHR
March 29, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Likening iEHR to the Wizard of Oz, Veterans Affairs CIO Roger Baker explains that the agency will be rolling out an initial version to two hospitals during the next two years, and details what that will look like.
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Q&A: An NwHIN-Exchange partner's take on sharing health data
March 22, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Leveraging NwHIN-Exchange has enabled Community Health Information Collaborative (CHIC) to win contracts with federal agencies such as the SSA and VA, improve patient care locally and become the HIE people look to as an example in its region. CHIC CEO Cheryl Stephens discusses how it all works.
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Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
October 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff
This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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On healthcare metadata and the Dublin Core
May 16, 2012 |
John Moehrke
John Moehrke explains why so many discussions around healthcare metadata are unproductive, and delves into the purpose of metadata, and the Dublin Core.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
April 12, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: What the ICD-10 delay really means, CMS touts MSSP ACOs many of which are physician-led, a pair of HIEs adopt Direct, and the PHI questions to ask all your business associates.
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What is the benefit of an HIE?
March 30, 2012 |
John Moehrke
The economic advantages of health information exchange may not be a big as some might hope, and care quality remains to be seen, but HIE are putting the patient at the center of their healthcare.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
March 23, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: Betting on SCOTUS, PPACA turns two, why EHRs have not improved since 1982, huge HIT strides otherwise, checking with a NwHIN Exchange partner, and the role lobbyists play in health policy.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 17, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
HIMSS12 coming right up. Meaningful use stage 2, ICD-11, EHRs, PHRs, and public health in one local election.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 2, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: A triptych of 2012 predictions about ACOs, HIE, and ICD-10, all rather bold.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
January 5, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
GOPers fear of healthcare questions, with an eye on New Hampshire a lesson learned in Iowa, HHS accomplishments, HIPAA 5010, CMS Innovation Advisors, and more.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 23, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
Clueless doctors don't like sharing, HHS names Pioneer ACOs while other health org's remain uncertain about the model, federal health IT spending skyrockets, and Southeast Minnesota's use of NwHIN protocols to the benefit of both providers and patients.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 1, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
Soaring EHR adoption? How sequestration might impact health IT, slight attestation delay, and the VA's CIO on VLER momentum.
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Why the 3-month HIPAA 5010 enforcement delay is benign
November 22, 2011 |
David A. Feinberg, CDP
A look at who might really be affected by CMS decision to not enforce HIPAA compliance for 90 days beyond the deadline, with the four scenarios to consider starting on January 1, 2012.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 10, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
OCR audits, PHI for HIEs, HIX IT, the value of electronic medical data in the theater of war, and more.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 3, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
ACO, EHRs, HIE, disconcerting poll results about HIPAA 5010, and an explanation of why privacy compliance need not be so scary. Those and more.
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