Category: HIE
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ONC disaster-prep partnership a no-brainer
Last summer, a report prepared for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT called for the use of health information exchanges to share clinical data during natural disasters. The report, created by the Southeast Regional Health IT and Health Information Exchange Collaboration (SERCH)–a consortium of six Southeastern states including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,…
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Of Physician Documentation—And Disaster Recovery
Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO of the 500-bed Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Oklahoma, has important thoughts on where physician documentation needs to go, and on the role of speech recognition in optimizing the documentation process. He also shares lessons learned from the Moore tornado disaster of this spring. In early June, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark…
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Time Capsule: Healthcare Transparency 2.0: Using RHIOs to Rate, Criticize, and Publicly Rat Out Idiot Patients Wasting Everybody Else’s Healthcare Money
I wrote weekly editorials for a boutique industry newsletter for several years, anxious for both audience and income. I learned a lot about coming up with ideas for the weekly grind, trying to be simultaneously opinionated and entertaining in a few hundred words, and not sleeping much because I was working all the time. They’re…
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Schools with more robust wellness programs offer healthier foods and beverages
Since 2006-2007, schools participating in federally-funded school meal programs have been required to have wellness programs. A new study in American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that schools with more robust wellness programs offer healthier foods and beverages, including foods offered in vending machines, school stores and a la carte sales. …read more Source: Schools…
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BCBS of Michigan PCMH Program Saves an Estimated $155M in Three Years
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's patient-centered medical home program, the largest PCMH program in the U.S., saved an estimated $155 million from July 2008 to July 2011 based on calculations made from a recent analysis published Health Services Research Journal. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's patient-centered medical home program, the largest PCMH program…
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Immunization in developing countries: an interview with Dr. Jos Vandelaer, Chief of Immunization for UNICEF
Overall, worldwide, immunization programs reach around 83% of all children – this is an enormous achievement. With this level of immunization coverage, we prevent over 2 million deaths, year after year. This statistic is often forgotten or taken for granted. …read more
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NPS MedicineWise calls on every Australian to fight against antibiotic resistance
In light of a paper released by the Office of the Chief Scientist today, NPS MedicineWise is calling on every Australian to do their part in the fight against antibiotic resistance in our community. …read more
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Beyond Liberating Data, HHS CTO Seeks to Free Up its People
Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the Department of Health & Human Services, often gives talks about his office’s efforts to make sharing data with the public the default setting at HHS. And he can point to successes in making data sets such has hospital-pricing information available. But his goals as “entrepreneur in residence” also…
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HIE Orgs. Concerned Over Sustainability, Survey Reports
While health information exchanges (HIEs) continue to grow in number, those who are participating say sustainability remains an issue, according to the results of a new survey that appears in the latest issue of the healthcare policy journal Health Affairs. While health information exchanges (HIEs) continue to grow in number, those who are participating say…
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Gamification breaks down complicated benefits information
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is following the gamification trend, using videos, quizzes and games to explain complicated benefits information to members. read more Source: Gamification breaks down complicated benefits information