Category: HIE

The HIT Fellows use Health IT and delivery system models to achieve the three-part aim: better health, better health care and lower cost We at ONC have worked with the Health IT Fellows for about six months and are beginning to see the group’s collective insights are helping doctors and patients move toward better health,…

Employers want to provide quality health care to attract top talent regardless of the bumpy ride so far for Obamacare, Walgreen Co. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Wasson, said. …read more

Torie Jones, former chief privacy officer at University of Pennsylvania Health System, had an ironclad rule in place for her staff: “No PHI in the cloud until you have a BAA in place.” For most cloud-based vendors, those who are used to the specific demands of working in healthcare, getting that business associate agreement in…

The increased demands for data sharing and interoperability and health information exchange, especially across different provider and practice settings and classification systems, increase reliance on data mapping tools and techniques. Those who use data maps should understand their role and context, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, to ensure the reliability of the data…

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Interoperability among disparate systems continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing health information exchanges today, according to the findings of a new industry survey. read more …read more