Category: HIE

Leaders from 33 digital health companies in New York are calling on the legislature to fund the Statewide Health Information Network of New York, or SHIN-NY, just as the organization’s connecting HIEs and information systems are starting to build a critical mass. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an appropriation of $65 million to…

On Monday, Feb. 24, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland caught up with Micky Tripathi, Ph.D, founding president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. As always, Tripathi was more than willing to be an iconoclast, when it comes to the current grumbling around HIE development. Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., founding president and CEO of the Boston-based Massachusetts…

Debates in Washington, D.C. may sometimes feel like they take place in an “evidence-free zone,” but healthcare information technology provides the evidence needed to achieve better healthcare for all, Hillary Clinton said Wednesday during a keynote address at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla. read more …read more    

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) were recognized in several categories of Seattle Business Magazine’s 2014 Leaders in Health Care Awards, including the publication’s Lifetime Achievement Award, given to Frederick R. Appelbaum, M.D., executive vice president and deputy director of Fred Hutch and president of SCCA. …read more    

Carequality Launches Significant Industry-Wide Effort Focused On Achieving Interoperability Between Existing and Emerging HIE Networks HealtheWay, formerly known as the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange, partners with Epic, Meditech, eClinicalWorks, Greenway, CVS, Walgreens, UnitedHealth Group, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and others to create a wide-reaching health information exchange. Cleveland Clinic, Dell collaborate on EHR service…

A reduction in the post-code lottery for hip replacement surgery has been achieved in Scotland without recourse to the private sector, according to new research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. …read more    

0 In many organizations, the CMIO reports to the chief medical officer, but in a HIMSS session, Aspen Advisors’ Mark Van Kooy, M.D., said that in some organizations, the CMIO is on an even footing with the CIO and CMO and reports directly to the CEO. “There is an ongoing evolution in terms of reporting…

What are the essentials to get privacy right? In a pre-conference education presentation, “Privacy and Security Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Identity,” Barry Hieb, M.D., chief scientist at Global Patient Identifiers, Inc., Tucson, Ariz., laid out what he thinks is necessary. What are the essentials to get privacy right? In a pre-conference education presentation, “Privacy…

CommonWell Health Alliance and Healtheway, two large industry stakeholder groups focused on health information exchange, both made announcements at the HIMSS14 conference this week in Orlando. read more …read more    

The latest addition to Allscripts extensive population health management suite, Allscripts FollowMyHealth Achieve, is intended to be unveiled and demonstrated at HIMSS14, February 23-27, 2014, in Orlando, Fla. Utilizing the Allscripts FollowMyHealth consumer portal and wireless devices, the solution engages patients directly in the management of their care, and enables providers to monitor patient status…