Category: HIE

ONC’s Chief Privacy Officer Tenders Resignation Joy Pitts, the ONC’s first Chief Privacy Officer, resigns after four years of service. Healthcare authentication software provider Imprivata sets terms for $75 million IPO Imprivata reports that it will raise $75 million in its upcoming IPO by offering 5 million shares at a price of $14 to $16…

Top News ONC announces that Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts, JD has resigned after four years on the job. Reader Comments From Anonymous Tipster: “Re: Wayne Tracy on VistA. I agree it would be a tragic shame to see VistA replaced. Unless Epic were to make some dramatic changes in its approach to interoperability, this…

Joy Pritts, who served as the first chief privacy officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT, will step down from her position next month. read more …read more    

Joy Pritts is leaving the Office of the National Coordinator after serving as the agency’s first Chief Privacy Officer for more than four years. Pritts’ departure was announced in an email from Karen DeSalvo, M.D., the National Coordinator for Health IT, to staff members. Joy Pritts is leaving the Office of the National Coordinator after…

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., an integrated, physician-centric healthcare delivery company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide comprehensive hospitalist services for Blue Shield of California PPO members at hospitals at which ApolloMed is present. …read more    

Cleveland Clinic Chief Out of Running for V.A. Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland Clinic, has withdrawn his name from consideration as the next secretary of the VA. Moody’s downgrades Lifespan Rhode Island Obligated Group (RI) to Baa2; outlook negative Moody’s has downgraded Lifespan’s (RI) bond rating based on a “multi-year trend of declining operating…

The state-designated entity for health information exchange (HIE) in Michigan will now be able to share data across state lines with provider organizations in the Hoosier State. read more …read more    

Ensuring the security of health data, much like handling highly sensitive military information, requires immaculate attention to detail. The transition from information assurance manager for the U.S. Army to hospital chief information security officer was a seamless one for Heather Roszkowski of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Vermont. read more …read more    

The agreement, announced Thursday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives authority to the acting VA chief to fire senior officials and to allow veterans who have experienced long waits or who live further than 40 miles from a VA facility to seek care elsewhere. If passed by both houses, the…

Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure. This paper describes ONC’s broad vision and framework for interoperability and is an invitation to health IT stakeholders – clinicians, consumers, hospitals, public health, technology developers, payers, researchers, policymakers and many others…