Category: HIE

The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that its network has experienced triple digit growth in 2014. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that its network has experienced triple digit growth in 2014. The health information exchange (HIE) organization said that the number of participating healthcare users and data available…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is in a giving mood this week. First its health information exchange (HIE) and now it’s the health IT workforce and innovation. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is in a giving mood this week. First, it was health information exchange…

As chief of the Associated Press’ Tokyo bureau, Joseph Coleman wrote a story about an agricultural cooperative in southwestern Japan where organizers put aging residents to work selling leaves and flowers as seasonal garnishes for high-class restaurants. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150204/New-book-explores-the-outcomes-of-an-aging-American-workforce.aspx       

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced this week they are investing $28 million into health information exchange (HIE). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced this week they…

At the invitation of the White House, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) sent two special guests to President Barack Obama’s announcement today of the Precision Medicine Initiative: Dr. Steven M. Altschuler, CHOP’s chief executive officer, and 9-year-old patient Emily Whitehead, now cancer-free thanks to a personalized treatment called T cell therapy, developed at CHOP.…

0 The Anceta Collaborative, the clinical analytics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), is helping members understand variations in processes of care, such as prescribing patterns and specialist referrals. Since I just wrote a Tech Trend article about the foundations of a learning health system, I thought it was a good time to…

The not-for-profit Sutter Health network announced today that it reached agreement on a new two-year contract with Blue Shield of California, preserving patient access to the doctors and care centers that Blue Shield sold to patients during fall open enrollment. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150131/Sutter-Health-reaches-fair-and-reasonable-agreement-with-Blue-Shield-of-California.aspx       

Today, we issued Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0 (“Roadmap”).  This Roadmap reflects nearly a year of collaborative effort with extensive input from the public and private sectors and is a call to action to see that we can unlock digital health information and see that it…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a 166-page, first draft interoperability roadmap, which outlines specific steps needed to achieve an open ecosystem in the next 10 years. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a 166-page, first draft interoperability roadmap, which outlines specific steps needed to…

The Georgia Regional Academic Community Health Information Exchange’s (GRAChIE) network has grown by 450 percent in the past six months, according to an announcement from the HIE organization. The Georgia Regional Academic Community Health Information Exchange’s (GRAChIE) network has grown by 450 percent in the past six months, according to an announcement from the HIE…