Patty Enrado
The money is flowing and industry stakeholders need to take advantage of it.
In an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun last week, Ritu Agarwal related her personal experiences about the problems with paper-based patient records and in a very convincing way made a case for EHR adoption.
Amidst all the millions of federal dollars slated for health IT adoption, HHS understands the importance of protecting patient information in electronic form.
A recent virtual roundtable hosted by Symantec on health information exchanges (HIEs) highlighted the different approaches states are taking to protect patient health information.
Professor Carl Gunter of the Department of Computer Science and the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a mission to develop technology that would make EHRs and health information exchange safe and secure, and therefore help patients and providers become more comfortable with these systems.
They say all healthcare is local. That could also be said about the regional extension centers (RECs) anointed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services and ONC.
Jersey Health Connect, one of four regional health information exchanges (HIEs) in the state chosen to share $11.4 million in federal money awarded to create a statewide HIE, is already exchanging patient data and laying out plans for how to spend its allotment of $3.4 million.
Jersey Health Connect, one of four regional health information exchanges (HIEs) in the state chosen to share $11.4 million in federal money awarded to create a statewide HIE, is already exchanging patient data and laying out plans for how to spend its allotment of $3.4 million.
Attendees at The Institute for Health Technology Transformation's Spring Summit last week got a lot of valuable lessons learned and best practices to take back to their healthcare organizations. Those who weren't there can still run with the takeaways.
When you begin reading a commentary about the value of health IT and the federal stimulus incentives for the healthcare industry by the CEO of a health IT company, the guard goes up. Watch out for the bias in the cheerleading.