Category: HIE

Plainfield health center is a federally qualified medical center in Vermont that has just installed the Vermont Information Technology Leaders interface. This allows them to get lab test results from the Vermont’s health information exchange network. The benefit of this venture is that those physicians who have recommended tests for patients at the Central Vermont…

During a frank discussion of the meaningful use program in Denver last week, one hospital IT chief said he wasn't sure some organizations “really, truly grasp the magnitude of some of the changes” demanded by Stage 2. read more …read more Source: Stage 2 changes may be rude awakening

Children who grow up in poverty are more likely than wealthier children to smoke cigarettes, but they are less likely to binge drink and are no more prone to use marijuana, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Source: Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to smoke cigarettes

A new study, conducted by David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, shows that, even as life expectancy has increased over the past two decades, people have become increasingly healthier later in life. Source: Research shows that people are remaining healthier later in life

CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, has announced that as a result of Exempla Healthcare signing a contract to participate in its health information exchange (HIE), all Colorado hospitals with more than 100 licensed beds have connected or are in the process to connect to an HIE network. Exempla Healthcare, an affiliate of SCL…

In his July 24 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Colin Banas, M.D., chief medical information officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, made a strong case for how data ubiquity lays the groundwork for subsequent clinical innovation and improved outcomes. In his July 24 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on…

Berlin, Md.-based Atlantic General Hospital became the first acute-care hospital in the nation to join another state's health information exchange when it recently joined the Delaware Health Information Network. read more Source: Maryland hospital first to cross state lines for HIE

All Colorado hospitals with more than 100 licensed beds have connected or are in the process to connect to a health information exchange (HIE) network, after the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) inked its most recent HIE contract with Exempla Healthcare in Denver. All Colorado hospitals with more than 100 licensed beds have connected…

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts exceeded federal standards by $396 million and state standards by $242 million in the amount it spent on medical benefits on behalf of its members in 2012. …read more Source: BCBSMA exceeds state and national health care spending standards in 2012