Category: HIE

Michael Cannizzaro, Behavioral Health Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, announced the opening of the BHG Lufkin Treatment Center in Lufkin, TX at 216 North John Redditt Drive in the Town West Center Plaza. …read more Source: BHG Lufkin Treatment Center opens in Texas

The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) has partnered with Predixion Software, a San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based developer of collaborative predictive analytics solutions, to offer a predictive solution that aims to reduce preventable hospital readmissions. The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) has partnered with Predixion Software, a San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based developer of collaborative predictive analytics…

Farzad Mostashari, M.D., ONC Chief, Stepping Down Farzad Mostashari, M.D, will step down this fall after serving two years as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Reduction in federal funding will result in job cuts at many Vermont hospitals Fletcher Allen Health Care (VT) will add 280 jobs over the next 10 years despite…

The announcement from HHS on August 6 that Farzad Mostashari, M.D. was preparing to leave his position as National Coordinator for Health IT this fall was very surprising. What’s important now is for the next National Coordinator to be as strategic and persuasive a leader as he has been. The announcement from the Department of…

New research from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) revealed that health information exchange (HIE) between hospitals and providers has jumped up 41 percent between 2008 and 2012. New research from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) revealed that health information exchange (HIE) between hospitals…

According to news sources, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will be stepping down this fall. Industry sources reported on August 6 that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), wrote the following in an e-mail to HHS staff members with the news. According to news sources, Farzad Mostashari, M.D.,…

In a new observational study published in the Journal of Food Science, researchers looked at the association of grape consumption, in the non-alcoholic forms most commonly consumed – fresh grapes, raisins and 100% grape juice – with the diet quality of a recent, nationally representative sample of U.S. children and adults. Source: Study: Grape consumption…

News From Around the Web > North Carolina is making moves to improve health cost transparency, according to an article in the Charlotte Business Journal. Starting next year, patients in the Tar… read more Source: North Carolina moves toward greater cost transparency; Keystone HIE will include heart monitoring info;

Benedick Fraass, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO, FACR, received the highest honor from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine — the William D. Coolidge Award — for his distinguished career achievements in medical physics, including his pioneering work in radiation oncology. Source: Cedars-Sinai physicist receives William D. Coolidge Award for pioneering work in radiation oncology

The number of health data breaches is growing with the push to electronic records, and increasingly thieves are targeting their attacks. read more Source: Most health data breaches malicious, not accidental