Category: HIE

Jails tend to be islands as far as healthcare is concerned, with providers inside having no information on care inmates received outside, and community emergency rooms–where most inmates are treated upon release–with no data from treatment provided inside. Two case studies dissected in an article at Perspectives in Health Information Management discuss the issues. read…

A data sharing deal was recently signed between the East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) and the Hawaii Health Information Exchange (HIE) to improve access to quality care for an estimated 10,000 patients in the East Hawaii region. A data sharing deal was recently signed between the East Hawaii Region of Hawaii…

According to Kevin Haynes, Chief Privacy Officer of Nemours–a children’s health organization with facilities in New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania and Delaware–process improvement is critical when it comes to patient information security. read more …read more

John Jay Kenagy, Ph.D., senior vice president and CIO, and CISO, at Legacy Health System in Portland, is helping to lead major change at his organization, and using the principles of the Triple Aim to help focus on what to change. John Jay Kenagy, Ph.D. is senior vice president and CIO, as well as CISO…

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Food prepared away from home is typically higher in calories and lower in nutrition than food prepared at home, but it now makes up more than one-third of all calories purchased in the United States. Consumers tend to view full-service restaurants as providing healthier, higher quality food than fast-food restaurants, but some studies have found…

0 Attendees of the second day of the three-day Public Health Informatics Virtual Event (PHIVE) heard some encouraging presentations about how local public health agencies are starting to take advantage of health information exchanges to improve their investigations of reportable diseases. Yet they also heard the results of a report highlighting the wide array of…

This week, Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick helped launch the next phase of the Massachusetts HIway Health Information Exchange (HIE), presenting a feature that allows providers to locate, request, and retrieve medical records from other participants on an interconnected system. This week, Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick helped launch the next phase of the Massachusetts HIway Health…

By EMC Corporation Integrated care vision will need ‘information access as basic component, enabling stakeholders collaboration finds new IDC-EMC study …read more

Blue Shield Life and Health is imposing an unreasonable rate increase on over 80,000 Californians with individual health insurance policies, an average of 9.8% that adds up to a 22.8% increase for the year. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today that the company would not budge on its excessive rate hike. …read more