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Healthcare providers should supply patients with layered and easy to understand notices of how their information will be used and protected when it is exchanged, says an advisory panel of the Health & Human Services Department.
About 75 percent of Minnesotans' patient records are online thanks to a user group that has connected eight of the state's largest healthcare organizations and is expected to connect two more organizations within the year.
HP work will ensure that the data used in the National Level Repository matches that in providers' systems.
Physicians should offer plain English summary of how they will protect and use patient data in health information exchange, panel says.
Emdeon, a provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, has been awarded a subcontract from CSC to provide IT services on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense Pharmacy Operations Directorate for the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS).
The state of Iowa is developing a strategic business and financial sustainability plan for a statewide health information exchange (HIE). According to officials, the plan is being developed in partnership with Hielix, a creator of operationally sustainable, open solutions to seamlessly exchange health information, and MEDNET, a provider of nationwide health information network (NHIN) connectivity and HIE solutions.
The U.S. Army is looking for a vendor to deploy WorldVistA EHR, an open source version of the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA medical record system, for the Iraq Ministry of Defense. It will connect with the government's healthcare system to enhance patient record-keeping and improve the level of healthcare in Iraq.
Health information exchanges can help solve problems that plague the healthcare system, an executive with one of the country's oldest community health information exchanges told attendees at the National Regional Extension Center/Health Information Exchange Summit West in San Francisco on Oct. 5.
Electronic health records increase physician likelihood of reporting adverse drug events to the FDA, according to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).
The Army seeks contractor to establish WorldVistA EHR system for Iraqi government.