Category: HIE

Healthcare industry leaders are likely to relate to einstein’s observation. achieving optimal patient outcomes by planning and coordinating clinical care across the entire continuum always has been a challenge. Nothing new about it. Source: Evidence-Based Care Across The Continuum: Its Time Is (Finally) Now

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is inviting innovators and entrepreneurs to participate in a series of projects, including one that aims to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) by developing new tools that can reduce HIE implementation effort and cost. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is inviting innovators and entrepreneurs…

Essent Healthcare established a strong relationship with The SSI Group, Inc. (SSI) to achieve its mission in providing individual communities with their hospital services. For the better part of a decade, SSI provided ClickON® Billing’s claims clearinghouse technology to Essent and served as their revenue cycle partner. Source: How Do You Recover More Than $1…

Also, news outlets examine the idea that the expansion’s new enrollees will likely be healthier than current beneficiaries but this will probably not relieve the expansion’s pressure on the health care workforce. Source: Ind., Ark. Medicaid expansion plans take shape, but also take time

The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is pleased to announce that Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the IARS, has achieved yet another increase in its “Impact Factor”—a key indicator of the influence and scientific value of medical journals. Source: Anesthesia & Analgesia journal of IARS achieves another increase in its "Impact Factor"

Many healthcare organizations are discovering that accountable care reimbursed via global captitated risk contracts requires more primary care physicians and a more tightly coupled delivery network including suburban hospitals, home care, and long term care. Affiliations, mergers, and acquisitions are accelerating to meet these needs. From an IT perspective how are to respond to this…

Two new Baylor University studies show that Israeli Jewish adults who attend synagogue regularly, pray often, and consider themselves religious are significantly healthier and happier than their non-religious counterparts. They also report greater satisfaction with life. Source: Adults attending synagogue regularly are healthier and happier than their non-religious counterparts

This past week was all about ICD-10. HHS is resolved to keep the current deadline and the American Medical Association (AMA) is keeping to its “Stop the implementation of ICD-10” mantra. “There are no plans for any more extensions,” ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. told attendees at the HIMSS ICD-10 Forum. To ICD-10 or Not…

Vocera Communications, Inc., the leading provider of solutions that address critical communications and productivity challenges facing healthcare, hospitality, retail and other mobile work environments, today announced that its founder and chief technology officer, Robert Shostak, PhD, has been awarded the 2013 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing for his co-authored paper, “The Byzantine Generals Problem”.…

The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI) has announced 32 collaborative projects that will receive HIway Implementation Grants of up to $75,000 each that will assist 80 healthcare organizations across the Commonwealth in connecting to the statewide health information exchange (HIE), the Mass HIway, enabling them to improve patient care and reduce…