Category: HIE

The venerable Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), sits down with Healthcare Informatics’ Senior Editor, Gabriel Perna, to discuss the second phase of the Massachusetts health information exchange (HIE), the Mass HIway and how it differs from other HIEs. Micky Tripathi is a perpetually busy man. read more …read more    

Luis Saldaña, M.D., chief medical information officer for Arlington, TX.-based Texas Health Resources, offers up tips on clinical decision support implementation in a recent interview with Becker’s Hospital Review. read more …read more    

Today at the HIT Policy Committee meeting, the Meaningful Use Workgroup will present its recommendations as part of the process leading to a final rule in 2015: Feb 2014: Draft stage 3 recommendations reviewed with HITPCMarch 2014: HITPC approval of stage 3 recommendationsFall 2014: NPRM for stage 31st half 2015: Final Rule for stage 3Effective:…

Can healthcare IT deliver value? According to David Levin, chief medical information officer of Cleveland Clinic Health System, it can–but getting there is “going to be messy.” read more …read more    

Providing near-real-time notice when patients visit the emergency room might be more useful and cost-effective initially than a full-fledged health information exchange, according to a case study… read more …read more    

A new Healtheway eHealth Exchange survey reveals a dramatic increase in participation and online transactions in the national health information exchange. read more …read more    

Though federal funding for state health information exchanges is running out, the reporting burden won’t end. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to… read more …read more    

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons today awarded G. Alexander Patterson, MD with the 2014 Earl Bakken Scientific Achievement Award during the Society’s 50th Annual Meeting. …read more    

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. I rarely watch television, but for Christmas, my wife bought me Season 1 of Game of Thrones, the HBO series inspired by the novels. Don’t worry, this…

Forty-seven percent of primary care-focused community clinics in California participate in health information exchange, according to a recent survey by California Health eQuality (CHeQ), the organization tasked with promoting coordinated care through HIE in the Golden State. Forty-seven percent of primary care-focused community clinics in California participate in health information exchange, according to a recent…