Category: HIE

Providing health care modulated on the specific needs of elderly for re-orienting national health systems toward a change of approach with patients. This should become the reference health strategy for the European Union, if it wants to achieve effective and efficient therapeutic goals, lowering costs while ensuring all appropriate health services, in particular when addressing…

Mark R. Katlic, M.D., chief of Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has been selected to receive a 2013 Innovator of the Year award from The Daily Record. He was recognized for his pioneering work as the director of the groundbreaking Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery. Source: Sinai Hospital’s chief of Surgery chosen to receive…

Robert Vietzke, vice president, network services, of Internet2, a bold nationwide and indeed international initiative to lay the groundwork for a revolution in 21st-century computing, speaks exclusively with Healthcare Informatics regarding what he and his colleagues are doing that has the potential to transform healthcare across multiple dimensions. Earlier this summer, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland…

An experimental health information exchange being tested in the north Georgia city of Rome is helping Koren Sinnock keep her travel plans. A breast cancer patient, Sinnock had been reluctant to travel very far from her doctors until the new program promised to provide access to her medical records from anywhere she might happen to…

The American Pain Society strongly believes professional and consumer education programs can achieve significant benefits for patients by improving clinicians’ knowledge regarding optimal approaches for assessing and treating chronic pain. …read more Source: American Pain Society sponsors two educational symposia at PAINWeek

Key to achieving that goal, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, are navigators who will help educate the public about the health law’s options. …read more Source: Sebelius on making the health law work

Five hospitals throughout West Virginia have joined the state's health information network, bringing the total number of hospitals connected to nine. Five hospitals throughout West Virginia have joined the state's health information network, bringing the total number of hospitals connected to nine. Monongalia General Hospital, Preston Memorial Hospital, Thomas Memorial Hospital, Grafton City Hospital, and…

A busy week of health IT policy and politics played out during the first week of August. For Washington observers, the week was a perfect mix of relaxed Hill Staff, new policy recommendations and a changing of the guard at ONC. A busy week of health IT policy and politics played out during the first…

Health information network to launch patient portal The Kansas Health Information Network, a Wichita,KS-based HIE, will launch a patient portal that will sit on top of the exchange and aggregate patient information from across all participating facilities so that patients can see all of their information on a single portal and can add their own…

Jody Cervenak, a Pittsburgh-based principal with the Denver-based Aspen Advisors consulting firm, has spent years in the healthcare IT space, including a long stint at the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh. Her perspective? Only when we can fully align incentives among stakeholders can we get to the next phase of HIE evolution. Jody Cervenak, a…