Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
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Hawaii Beacon Touts New Successes
When ONC reported to Congress last month on both the HITECH Act's achievements and the barriers left to overcome, officials cited notable progress seen across the $250 million Beacon Community projects. [...] Read More »
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Health Care Data as a Public Utility: How Do We Get There?
Despite the technological integration seen in banking and other industries, health care data has remained scattered and inaccessible. EHRs remain fragmented among 861 distinct ambulatory vendors and 277 inpatient vendors as of 2013.Similarly, insurance claims are stored in the databases of insurers, and information about public health is often kept in databases belonging to various governmental agencies. These silos wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except for the lack of interoperability that has long plagued the health care industry. For this reason, many are reconsidering if health care data is a public good, provided to all members of the public without profit...
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Health Care IT Chief's Departure Leaves Gap In EHR Leadership
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the Obama administration's national coordinator for health IT, announced his resignation on Aug. 6. Read More »
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Health I.T. Job Growth Has Been Underestimated?
New data from an analysis of online job postings confirms that employment growth in health information technology (HIT) has even further exceeded projections, driven by funding from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. [...] Read More »
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Health Industry Struggling To Keep Up With Growing ID Theft Problem
The rise in medical identity theft in the U.S. in recent years--and in particular, theft involving a breach in technology--has been swift and has left many concerned about the effectiveness of privacy regulations, according to a recent Stateline report. Read More »
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Healthcare Corp. Approved For EHR Incentive Payment
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. stands to get $1.4 million within a month as incentive payment for its electronic health record project after it received drawdown approval over the weekend. Read More »
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HealtheConnections RHIO Transitioning HIE Platform To Mirth Corporation
HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) supporting the 1.4 million lives in Central New York, today announced that it is partnering with Mirth Corporation to upgrade and expand its capabilities and reach. 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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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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How Do Cloud-Based EHRs Address Common Implementation Woes?
After spending thousands of dollars on an EHR system, computers, IT infrastructure, installation, and staff training, most providers hope that they never have to go through the EHR implementation process again. [...] Read More »
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How EHRs Can Help You To Save Time, Cost And More
Electronic Health Records is a term which is being chanted more often than ever in the United States. Through the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the US has spent over $30 billion on EHRs. Are these EHRs really worth the investment? Read More »
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i2b2 Open Source Software Boosts HIE, Biomedical Research
The health informatics software i2b2 — Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside — was started in 2006, and has become something of a building block for several health information networks and research projects in genomics, pharmaceuticals and population health. Read More »
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Interoperability? Not Without Standards
We constantly hear that healthcare needs interoperability like the ATM or cell phone networks, but what does that really mean? Interoperability is becoming more important as we begin to implement systems in all of healthcare. The goal of the HITECH and ACA legislation was to increase the use of HIT throughout the modes of care. Once implemented, especially at scale, these systems need to easily talk or communicate with each other. Read More »
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Is The EHR Transition Hitting Speed Bumps Or A Concrete Wall?
We interrupt this policy initiative for a period of reassessment! No, there’s no formal reconsideration of the HITECH act under way, but this article does a nice job of chronologically lining up numerous objections or challenges to the goals and methods of HITECH which, the author suggests, may indicate that a “backlash” is underway. Read More »
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Lawmakers Call For 'Reboot' Of Meaningful Use Program
Six Republican Senators have formally requested that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide a written plan to address how the agency is implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Read More »
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