Category: eHealth

In the wake of continual regulations and federal programs for health IT professionals, one of the biggest challenges for Carolinas Healthcare System Chief Information Officer Craig Richardville and his team is trying to understand and prioritize such requirements. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/cio-spotlight-carolinas-craig-richardville-values-teamwork-flexibility-empl/2015-04-08?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

When Healthcare.gov ran into problems we heard all about the health insurance exchanges (HIX). Since Healthcare.gov hasn’t run into any issues we aren’t hearing about health insurance exchanges nearly as much. The exception might be the states that were running their own HIX and failed. I’ve seen a number of those stories out there. However,…

In this Q&A, Mariann Yeager, CEO of Healtheway, explains the nonprofit’s two big initiatives: Carequality and the eHealth Exchange. She talks about the progress both efforts have made in advance interoperability in healthcare. Interoperability is all around us. That’s where it can get confusing. There are countless interoperability initiatives in operation today. Whether it’s a…

While ICD-11 is expected to be released worldwide in 2017, per the World Health Organization, it likely won’t be ready for use in the U.S. healthcare system for at least seven to 10 years, believes Michael Stearns, M.D., CEO of Austin, Texas-based healthcare IT and compliance organization Apollo HIT. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/icd-11-may-still-be-decade-away-us-icd-10-who/2015-04-09?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss…

Less than a quarter of the way through 2015, tens of millions of healthcare consumers already have seen their personal information compromised–the most notable hacks so far being on health insurance… read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/himss15-cybersecurity-must-be-faced-industry-head/2015-04-08?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

While President Barack Obama issued an executive order to use information sharing and analysis organizations to boost cybersecurity awareness and coordination between private entities and the government, those efforts need more development before they provide useful information, according to an article at The Wall Street Journal. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/healthcare-cybersecurity-info-sharing-still-work-progress/2015-04-07?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Hospitals and health system CIOs both stressed the need for patient identifiers in comments sent late last week to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on its draft roadmap. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/hospitals-cios-call-increased-patient-identifier-action-interoperability-ro/2015-04-06?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

We all know about the Meaningful Use penalties. The PQRS penalties. The Value Based Modifier penalties. Individually, they’d all be annoying, but I don’t think most healthcare organizations have understood what these penalties will be in aggregate. This hit home to me when I was reading a smartly titled post by Jim Tate called “What…

The Statewide Health Information Network of New York (the SHIN-NY) is receiving $45 million in funding from the State of New York, according to a release from the New York eHealth Collaborative, the nonprofit organization operating the health information exchange (HIE). The Statewide Health Information Network of New York (the SHIN-NY) is receiving $45 million…

Consumers want to know their data will be used for helpful purposes, yet seek assurances of privacy and protection against breaches, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/4-ways-balance-health-privacy-data-sharing/2015-04-02?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss