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HHS Ventures Team Helps Detect Disease Outbreaks
It was a no brainer for the HHS Ventures Fund to include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) GHOST project in its latest round of funding. There are about 3.5 million Americans infected with Hepatitis C (HCV), which attacks the liver and can lead to cirrhosis and other serious health problems, according to the latest data collected by the CDC. This CDC Ventures team is developing a cloud-based, public health research tool to help state and local health departments more quickly detect and fight the spread of disease. The team calls their system GHOST – Global Hepatitis Outbreak Surveillance Technology...
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HIE 'Rules Of Road': What's Next?
Supporters of a recent decision by federal regulators to back away from issuing voluntary "rules of the road" for secure health information exchange say the move makes sense [...]. But some others argue that establishing HIE benchmarks, especially for privacy and security, is advisable now to help build public trust. Read More »
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HIE Critical To Care Continuity In Natural Disasters
As some hospitals in the New York metropolitan area were forced to evacuate patients and send them to nearby facilities in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, health information exchange proved to be a vital tool in making those transitions as smooth as possible. Read More »
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HIE interoperability 'a great hurdle with little relief in sight'
“Despite the incorporation of new meaningful use policies, it is clear that interoperability issues are still stifling organizations’ ability to connect,” the Washington-based eHealth Initiative wrote in its 10th annual HIE survey. “The survey results reveal that interoperability remains a great hurdle with little relief in sight.” Read More »
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HIE Networks proved their worth in 2012
In 2012, in the United States and elsewhere, dozens of health information exchanges (HIEs) and HIE technologies blossomed. Health organizations made advances in population health management, biomedical research and transparency; insurers bought HIEs as part of their accountable care programs; and health information networks served as a key public utility in times of natural disaster. Read More »
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HIE, EHR Familiarity Grows, But Provider Frustrations Remain
A newly-released survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that while nearly all physicians have heard of the EHR Incentive Program, health information exchange, and other electronic data initiatives, frustration among participants remains high. Read More »
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HIE, Interoperability Still Center Stage
As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, his office and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the future and plotting long-term information exchange and interoperability policy strategies. Read More »
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HIE, REC Funding Drying Up Despite Need
Despite many physicians and hospitals now meaningfully using electronic health records, there's still a huge gap when it comes to these providers actually exchanging patient data. That reality has some regional extension centers taking up the work of health information exchange. The funding, however, is often hard to come by...
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HIEs Craft Strategies For Non-Targeted Query
In the process of creating health information exchange recommendations, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy & Security Tiger Team is considering practices that have been developed for a critical care coordination practice: non-targeted query. Read More »
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HIEs Struggle with Sustainability
More providers than ever are participating in health information exchanges, at the same time that a majority of HIE organizations are struggling to find sustainable business models, a new study has found. Read More »
HIEs: Help in Disasters?
How big of a role did health information exchanges play in providing access to records during Superstorm Sandy, and what lessons can be learned? Federal officials will address these questions, says HIE expert Lee Stevens. Read More »
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HIMSS Foundation And National eHealth Collaborative Merge
Focused on better health and greater value through information technology, the HIMSS Foundation and the National eHealth Collaborative announce a merger. Both organizations embrace a similar mission to engage with all stakeholders to drive positive change in healthcare with IT and provide a single, mission-driven voice and focus; NeHC will fold into the HIMSS Foundation. Read More »
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HIMSS, MGMA Unwrap HIE Toolkit
To help physician practices navigate health information exchange, HIMSS and the Medical Group Management Association and its standards-setting body, the American College of Medical Practice Executives, have introduced the Ambulatory Health Information Exchange Toolkit for physician practices. Read More »
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HIMSS12: HIE and Enabling Interoperability
The big news out of HIMSS12 in Las Vegas last week was the release of Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations. It will take some time for stakeholders to carefully examine what they need to do going forward, including being able to do greater and more complex transactions for securely sharing patient information. Read More »
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HIMSS14: HL7 International and AEGIS.net, Inc. Partner to Launch HL7 Conformance Testing Program
Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International and AEGIS.net (AEGIS) today announced the launch of a new Conformance Testing Program for HL7 standards. The HL7 Conformance Testing Program provides a platform for ongoing, iterative testing that helps healthcare IT developers get highly interoperable products to market quickly and cost-effectively. The testing program will make interoperability more cost-effective for vendors as well as implementers by reducing interface development time and costs.
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