When Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise displays its progress at the RSNA 2012 show next week, it will be the result of years of hard work that began as far back as 1998.
With the 2012 election a week away, Leavitt Partners today released analysis that shows the critical impact the elections will have on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Hanging in the balance is the execution of federal health reform as determined by the White House, Congress, statehouses and America's private health care system. Major public policy decisions pertaining to health insurance exchanges, Medicare benefits, Medicaid expansion and insurance reforms are all on the table as Americans place their vote.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded $9 million in grants to five collaborative groups, including one for healthcare exchange, to demonstrate how online transactions can be secure and private as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.
Health care will be in a "qualitatively different place in 2014 than it is today" when it comes to health information exchange, ONC head Mostashari said.
Trying what it calls a different approach, AlliedHIE CEO Kelly Lewis tells of trying to identify communications and exchange needs, then trying to solve those problems.
The vendor's client base now has 5010-compliant software, which means they can start testing the EDI transactions -- if external partners are ready to do so.
The National eHealth Collaborative brought together 65 consumer and health groups to start sharing best practices, communication strategies and health IT tools to encourage consumers to participate in their health.
With a number of Direct Project pilots popping up around the country, healthcare providers who want to have the capability to perform simple exchanges can take heart that this is one technology that is straightforward to use, even if it isn't quite "plug-and-play."
The first version of the software that will allow simple information exchange between providers, a crucial enabler for the first stage of meaningful use of electronic health records, was announced by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.