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Category: HIE

  • Does Your Company Have the Edge? Get Recognized by Healthcare Informatics

    Does Your Company Have the Edge? Get Recognized by Healthcare Informatics

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    We at Healthcare Informatics have created a new recognition vehicle, the “Leading Edge Awards,” whose recipients will be recognized during the same reception in which we will be recognizing the winners of our annual Innovator Awards. This program will honor vendor companies for their work in interoperability, clinician workflow improvement, and cost savings. At a…

  • BCBSAZ's cooking contest aims at motivating Arizona kids to improve daily food choices

    BCBSAZ's cooking contest aims at motivating Arizona kids to improve daily food choices

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    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona is launching its 2015 kids cooking contest aimed at motivating Arizona kids to incorporate healthy options into their daily food choices. For the fifth consecutive year, the company is looking for great-tasting, kid-inspired side dishes for the Walk On! Kids Cooking Challenge. …read more      

  • CORHIO Adds Eight-Hospital Health System to Its HIE

    CORHIO Adds Eight-Hospital Health System to Its HIE

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    The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that HealthONE, an eight-hospital system in the Denver area, has successfully connected to its health information exchange (HIE) network. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that HealthONE, an eight-hospital system in the Denver area, has successfully connected to its health information exchange (HIE)…

  • Health Information Exchange Lessons from Six States

    Health Information Exchange Lessons from Six States

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    Today, we released a case study from the evaluation of the HITECH-funded State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program that shows how states play a central role in leadership, coordination, collaboration, policy development, and identifying local health IT needs and gaps. At ONC, we are undertaking important work – along with our federal partners and private-sector…

  • Reform roundup: Georgia exchange attracts more insurers; Kansas embraces one part of health law

    Reform roundup: Georgia exchange attracts more insurers; Kansas embraces one part of health law

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    UnitedHealthcare, Coventry, Cigna and Time Insurance Company have each submitted plans with the state to offer health insurance in the federally run exchange in Georgia next year. They join the five holdovers from this year’s exchange that are also submitting rates for review: Alliant Health Plans, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Humana, Kaiser…

  • Researchers use simple tactics to reduce unnecessary blood tests, health care spending

    Researchers use simple tactics to reduce unnecessary blood tests, health care spending

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    Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges. …read more    

  • Efforts to Cut Unnecessary Blood Testing Decreases Laboratory Spending Significantly

    Efforts to Cut Unnecessary Blood Testing Decreases Laboratory Spending Significantly

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    Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore used two relatively simple tactics…

  • Technology-Driven Healthcare Part 1: Telemedicine

    Technology-Driven Healthcare Part 1: Telemedicine

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    Healthcare IT and healthcare reform are inextricably entwined as healthcare delivery transforms itself from a model based on volume to one based on value. Telemedicine is a disruptive technology that is ripe for driving this change from a provider-centric care model to a patient-centric model. That’s the view of Dennis Schmuland, M.D., chief health strategy…

  • In 5-4 decision, high court sides with Hobby Lobby

    In 5-4 decision, high court sides with Hobby Lobby

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    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a 5-4 split said “closely held” companies can on religious grounds opt out of a federal health-care law requirement that companies provide contraception coverage for employees, carving another piece from President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement. …read more    

  • Maryland, Delaware Begin Sharing ADT Summaries

    Maryland, Delaware Begin Sharing ADT Summaries

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    One of the most valuable services health information exchanges are providing involves the acronym ADT, which stands for “admission, discharge and transfer” summaries. Providing physicians information when their patients have significant hospital events allows for faster follow-up care. A big first for HIEs is now taking place on the Delmarva Peninsula with ADT summaries being…