Category: HIE

InteHealth’s Patient Portal and Physician Portal have achieved 2014 Edition Modular EHR Inpatient and Ambulatory ONC Health IT Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting healthcare providers with Stage 1 and Stage 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. InteHealth Patient Portal and…

The benefits of reduced imaging from the use of health information exchange have largely been the stuff of anecdote and theory, until now. In one of the first large-scale empirical studies on the links between HIE participation and imaging in hospital emergency departments, researchers from Mathematica Policy and the University of Michigan found redundant CT…

From Big Kahuna: “Re: Advisory Panel question about ‘2014 will be the year of …’ Patient Access! Of the 10 hospital CEOs we heard speak at last week’s J.P. Morgan conference in San Francisco, eight mentioned patient access as a chief concern or initiative.” “Jeopardy” winner or not, readers aren’t impressed with the healthcare potential…

Chicago-based Rush Health plans to create a private health information exchange to better connect its three hospitals and close to 1,000 physicians. read more …read more

Several justices expressed skepticism about the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that prohibits protesters within a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinic entrances. Chief Justice John Roberts is likely to cast the deciding vote. …read more

A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that increasing treatment, monitoring and adherence to therapy are necessary to achieve significant health benefits at the population level.…

HIStalkalooza 2014, sponsored by Imprivata, will be held Monday, February 24, 2014 from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. at the House of Blues Orlando (Downtown Disney) during the HIMSS Annual Conference & Expo. Clay Ritchey, Imprivata’s chief marketing officer, said in a company announcement, “HIStalkapalooza is perhaps the most high-profile, premier social event in healthcare…

Only a quarter of U.S. primary care physicians surveyed are doing a thorough job of helping patients achieve and maintain a healthy weight, finds a study in the American Journal of Health Promotion. …read more

Facing challenges in their home state, top executives of Boston-based Partners HealthCare System told a national audience of investors Monday that they will create a bold “new medical model” by integrating hospitals and their medical services with insurance products and by drawing patients from across the country. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Partners’…

Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinical network of physicians and hospitals, is creating a private health information exchange (HIE) for its members, investing in advanced population health software in an effort to improve care quality, care coordination, and patient outcomes, the organization announced this week. Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinical network of physicians and hospitals, is…