Category: HIE
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Breach Report: Lost Flash Drive at Kaiser Permanente Affects 49,000 Patients
A flash drive went missing at Kaiser Permanente’s Anaheim Medical Center in Orange County, Calif., prompting the Oakland-based healthcare giant to notify 49,000 patients whose data was stored on the device. Meanwhile, a stolen laptop at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s (BCBSNJ) headquarters may have affected 839,711 members. A flash drive went…
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Hospital CMIO: Providers are ‘scared’ of innovation
With patient engagement tools like Fitbit and personal health records growing more and more abundant, a primary goal of providers in today’s society must be to avoid obstructing the flow of information from patients and their tools to medical professionals, according to Ryan Bosch, chief medical information officer at Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System.…
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HIE can help identify ED ‘frequent fliers’ for care coordination
Data from a health information exchange can more accurately identify patients who visit hospital emergency departments frequently than a single site’s records, according to research published at Health Affairs. read more …read more
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The Road Ahead…CIOs Look Out Over the Next Five Years
The role of the CIO has dramatically increased, including budgets, reports, and the massive multi-million dollar—sometimes billion dollar—deployments they lead. Given that, the CIO may be healthcare’s new million dollar man. The role of the CIO has dramatically increased, including budgets, reports, and the massive multi-million dollar—sometimes billion dollar—deployments they lead. Given that, the CIO…
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Missouri, Illinois HIEs Sign Data Sharing Agreement
Two statewide health information exchanges (HIEs), from Missouri and Illinois, have signed a data-sharing agreement, allowing patient information to cross state lines. Two statewide health information exchanges (HIEs), from Missouri and Illinois, have signed a data-sharing agreement, allowing patient information to cross state lines. read more …read more
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Investing in Analytics for Population Health Management: One Industry Expert’s View
The healthcare industry is in the early days of an information revolution, and the question is not whether healthcare organizations should respond to the population health management trend, but instead how they are going to do so. Alex White, managing director in the Corporate Finance/Restructuring practice at FTI Consulting, discusses the changing landscape of healthcare…
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Study: Uncontrolled epilepsy associated with higher healthcare utilization
Seizures in people with epilepsy are commonly treated with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) but 30-40 percent do not achieve adequate seizure control, predisposing them to severe health risks, impaired quality of life and higher healthcare costs. …read more
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Huntsville Hospital Health System chooses Caradigm HIE for integrated care across community
Huntsville Hospital Health System, the nation’s fifth largest publicly owned healthcare organization, has selected the Caradigm Health Information Exchange, powered by Orion Health, to provide the backbone for integrated care across the community, with a vision to ultimately connect care across the entire northern Alabama region. …read more
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Obama seeks to connect with young adults, encourage them to sign up for coverage
The 18-35 year-old demographic is seen as key to achieving stability in the new online insurance marketplaces. But reaching this group is no easy task — their interest and support for the health law appears to be waning. …read more
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Four Factors Shape WEDI’s HIT Roadmap
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Foundation, a Reston, Va.-based nonprofit focused on healthcare information exchange (HIE), has released a four-pronged health IT roadmap. The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Foundation, a Reston, Va.-based nonprofit focused on healthcare information exchange (HIE), has released a four-pronged health IT roadmap. The roadmap features four areas…