Category: HIE

Achieving health care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care (STEEEP) is not an endpoint, but a journey. This journey requires a commitment to quality improvement from the highest levels of leadership combined with the interdependent development of several key components of health care delivery: administration and governance, clinical leadership, quality programs…

Only six months live and one million patient records secured by the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE). Only six months live and one million patient records secured by the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE). Those are the numbers for the HIE, an initiative of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC), and powered by the Irving,…

A clinical trial investigating the use of a physician-monitored app to help first-time minority stroke patients become healthier has begun at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150225/UTHealth-study-explores-use-of-app-to-help-improve-health-of-minority-stroke-patients.aspx       

Chief information officers are often not involved with shaping a company’s strategic agenda, and confidence has lessened when it comes to IT’s ability to support business goals, according to a survey published this month by McKinsey & Company. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/execs-must-close-gaps-and-engage-cios/2015-02-24?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

ECRI Institute is proud to announce the winners of its fourth annual Healthcare Supply Chain Achievement Award. The prestigious award honors healthcare organizations that demonstrate excellence in overall spend management and in adopting best practice solutions in their supply chain processes. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150223/Winners-of-ECRI-Institutes-2015-Healthcare-Supply-Chain-Achievement-Award-announced.aspx       

0 What the executive director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet knows—as do his counterparts in Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado—is how to provide practical value to stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum read more …read more Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/healthcare-informatics/~3/aNcN8ufDuqU/what-dev-culver-knows-secret-hie-sustainability       

The current state of operative health information exchanges (HIEs) in the U.S. can best be described as “persistent unpredictability,” and the industry appears a ways away from achieving meaningful interoperability, according to Black Book Research’s annual HIE stakeholder survey. The current state of operative health information exchanges (HIEs) in the U.S. can best be described…

St. Clair Hospital of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. has been named a 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment. St. Clair Hospital, an independent, 328-bed…

Using health information exchange (HIE) data has helped researchers identify patients that are likely to be homeless, as well as helping them create a tool that could potentially better improve patient record matching. Using health information exchange (HIE) data has helped researchers identify patients that are likely to be homeless, as well as helping them…

At a time when the broad survival of health information exchanges, especially statewide HIEs, is in question, Dev Culver and his colleagues at Maine’s HealthInfoNet have unlocked the keys to sustainability At a time when the broad survival of health information exchanges (HIEs) is in question nationwide, and a number of statewide HIEs are shutting…