Robert Kaye, Dr. Bob's HIT Thoughts
“The federal government made a commitment to encouraging HIE through the State HIE Grant program. Federal policy has a considerable influence on the strategies the states are adopting. For example, it was made clear that The Direct Project specification should be adopted and implemented.
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Chris Taylor, The Successful Workplace
“There are real challenges with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) beyond getting doctors to write things down (a feat in itself). Healthcare providers are being pushed to adopt EMR, but few are at Stage 7, shown at right.
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BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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Raymond Rendleman, The Lund Report
“Technology is changing so quickly that state officials and advocates overseeing more streamlined transfers of health information in Oregon are scrambling to keep up.
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Kim Bandura, The Morehead News
“Technology will be playing a bigger role in patient care than ever before.
Healthcare professionals and their related associates have been mandated by the federal government to abide by “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR) by the end of 2014.
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Gary Palgon, Healthcare IT News
“The day is rapidly coming when healthcare providers across the country will be able to share information about patients with a few clicks of a mouse.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“All animals can exchange information when in proximity to each other. Humans advanced this useful exchange to occur when the interacting parties are far apart, which makes the human animal quite unique. First came human couriers carrying verbal information, followed by human couriers carrying written missives, then came technology.
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Evan Godt, CMIO
“Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE)
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The idea has been that these HIEs would knit different ambulatory practices together, giving physicians using disparate Electronic Health Records systems a common place to exchange clinical data with each other – at first, it would simply be the summary data (problem lists, medication lists, allergies, immunizations, and lab results) that could be encoded in standard-format transport files (CCDs or CCRs). More robust full-document exchange of complete chart notes, imaging files, etc., would come later.
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Rob Brull, HL7 Standards
“Several questions can arise when considering whether to parse the data of a CCD document from a remote facility and merge it into the local EHR. HIEs are spurring increased emphasis on the use of CCD documents to exchange information among facilities, so it would be ideal to have consistent practices regarding the merging of the received data into the existing EHR.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“We passed the one thousand mark on products certified as EHR technologies for ambulatory care and the five hundred mark for inpatient care, and there is no relief in sight.
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Johnson KB et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18(5)
OBJECTIVE
Health information exchange (HIE) systems are being developed across the nation. Understanding approaches taken by existing successful exchanges can help new exchange efforts determine goals and plan implementations. The goal of this study was to explore characteristics of use and users of a successful regional HIE.
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Eleri Harris, ABC
“All around the country GPs are connecting with their local hospitals and beyond through a brand new an electronic health records system.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While healthcare executive applaud the benefits that health information exchanges (HIEs) can provide–such as improving the quality of clinical reporting and the coordination of care among physicians–the high costs of participating in an HIE is still an impediment, according to a study from healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Nearly 70 percent of hospitals are building or planning to build the infrastructure for a health information exchange, according to a survey of 200 hospital executives by Beacon Partners, a health IT consulting firm.
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Nick Gardiner, The Recorder and Times
“Instead of days or even weeks, it took mere minutes to send medical records from Brockville General Hospital to local healthcare providers under a pilot project testing the benefits of electronic health records.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Following the example of numerous hospitals across the country, HEALTHeLINK, a regional health information exchange (HIE) in western New York, has adopted a cloud-based image storage and exchange system that enables providers to access diagnostic-quality images from multiple facilities.
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PR-USA.net
“KLAS reports that while providers are juggling a laundry list of priorities–meaningful use, ICD-10, RAC audits, and accountable care models, HIEs are still of high interest to many providers.
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FierceHealthIT
“An Accenture (NYSE: ACN) survey of more than 3,700 doctors across eight countries has found that healthcare IT is improving health practices and there is common agreement on the top benefits of technology across countries. But some physicians do not yet see all the benefits, especially those over 50 or those who are not actively using healthcare IT, such as electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchanges (HIE).
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“As a CIO, having all hospitals within a health system on the same EMR is the ideal scenario. But as Todd Richardson knows, it isn’t always a reality, particularly when physicians are minority owners. In this interview, Richardson, who serves as CIO of the six-hospital Deaconess Health System, gives his honest take of how having physician owners can impact IT decision making, and why organizations need to accommodate the growing need among patients to access their data.
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