Mirth Corporation, a global leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, announced that the Crescent City Beacon Community (CBCC), one of 17 federally funded Beacon Communities nationwide, will utilize their full suite of interoperability and care management solutions to achieve its innovative vision for connected care across the greater New Orleans area. The Beacon
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Orion Health, the leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, today announced that St. Vincent’s HealthCare, a faith-based, not-for-profit health system in Jacksonville, Fla., has selected Orion Health HIE to connect disparate software systems and enable enterprise-wide sharing of clinical data as well as communications with community physicians. St. Vincent’s HealthCare will
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Successfully exchanging health information at the local, regional, statewide or federal level takes a multi-product, multi-tiered approach based upon an assessment of an HIE’s needs. That’s the consensus of five health information exchange leaders, representing both established and early stage HIEs, who spoke at a recent HIE Leader Roundtable discussion sponsored by that National eHealth
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The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) announced the launch of the nation’s first statewide Direct Adoption project earlier this month. RIQI’s Regional Extension Center is the first of the 62 RECs to create a program focused on helping providers understand and adopt Direct Messaging, a simple, secure and cost-effective way for sending patients’ protected health
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A rapid development approach to Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) may be a viable model for developing HIEs in communities with limited resources, according to a study published in the current issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). The study, one of the first to formally assess the usability of a regional HIE
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While most people agree that engaging patients in their healthcare decisions is a good thing, providers often walk a tightrope between communicating the appropriate information at the appropriate time and patients’ right to their health information.
A consumer-mediated health information exchange (CMHIE) project for cancer patients in Georgia hopes to provide some clear guidance for providers seeking the proper balance.
Verizon announced one of the first successful pilots highlighting the integration of the ‘Direct Project’ and ‘NHIN Connect’ initiatives spearheaded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Verizon, working with health information technology provider MEDfx, has implemented a pilot program for diabetes care management with MedVirginia/CenVaNet and Dominion Medical Associates, showing
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Verizon and MEDfx have successfully implemented a pilot program enabling health care providers that still use paper records to easily convert them to a digital format and share them with other authorized providers. The program addresses long-standing issues that have blocked the widespread adoption of electronic health care records: the complexity and expense that health
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Reinventing the wheel every time it wanted to exchange health information wasn’t cost-effective or efficient for the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC). So when leaders at the Minneapolis, MN-based health system were approached by ABILITY (formerly VisionShare) to participate in a Direct Project pilot, they saw a way to streamline their efforts. “The exciting thing
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Seven of 10 adults think the U.S. health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released last week. The concerns reflect widespread experiences with access barriers, poorly coordinated care and growing costs. The survey also reveals strong support for more patient-centered care systems and innovative use
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