Category: HIE

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is reporting that the personal information of 27,000 of its employees might have been put at risk by identity thieves, with nearly 800 workers falling victim to a fraudulent tax return scheme, say multiple news outlets. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is reporting that the personal…

0 For the upcoming April/May issue of Healthcare Informatics, I have written a feature story on the state of HIE across the country, wondering how successful it has become. When it comes to this issue, why is there such a difference in opinion amongst health IT leaders? For the upcoming April/May issue of Healthcare Informatics,…

Effective integration with a health information exchange isn’t easy, but there are ways to shorten the roadblocks and develop a comprehensive HIE strategy. To that end, Sean Kennedy, director of health information exchange at the Massachusetts eHealth Institute and Nicole Heim, CIO Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center, speaking Wednesday at the Healthcare Business Intelligence Forum…

Geisinger Health System, the pioneering integrated care network, is “perfectly designed to do a huge number of experiments in both the provider and payer sides,” said its Chief Executive Officer Glenn Steele Jr., MD, on Thursday. read more …read more    

Anoto has announced the achievement of compliancy for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Anoto is now qualified to offer Anoto Live forms as a hosted or locally installed solution to the US healthcare market. What does HIPAA compliance mean? It simply means that they have implemented the processes and procedures to regulate…

Achieving the Triple Aim—the idea of improved quality, enhanced patient engagement and satisfaction, and improved cost-effectiveness in healthcare—will inevitably involve a great deal of process, cultural and technological effort, agreed members of a panel discussion Atlanta Health IT Summit Achieving the Triple Aim—the idea of improved quality, enhanced patient engagement and satisfaction, and improved cost-effectiveness…

The New Jersey statewide health information exchange (HIE) launched this week, according to the New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd. The New Jersey statewide health information exchange (HIE) launched this week, according to the New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd. read more …read more    

A recent cybersecurity drill found that healthcare organizations to be more willing to share information and best practices, Kevin Charest, chief information security officer at the U.S. Department… read more …read more    

C. T. Lin, MD, FACP is CMIO at Tell me about yourself and the health system. My title is chief medical information officer of UC Health. We were just University of Colorado Hospital and now we are now a five-hospital partnership. That role allows me to continue to practice medicine, both inpatient and outpatient. It’s…

HEALTHeLINK, Western New York’s health information exchange (HIE), has launched an automated syndromic surveillance reporting service for its hospital partners to detect outbreaks and monitor disease developments. HEALTHeLINK, Western New York’s health information exchange (HIE), has launched an automated syndromic surveillance reporting service for its hospital partners to detect outbreaks and monitor disease developments. read…