Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has announced it will house the Network Coordinating Center for a newly established data-sharing collaborative organization, the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network.
The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) has gone live with data exchange statewide. CRISP officials call it a "major step" toward the delivery of critical health information to the right place at the right time.
CIOs who are keeping a close watch on the Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Regional Extension Center (REC) efforts in their states are worried the country might be building a Tower of Babel, as Catherine M. Szenczy, senior vice president and CIO of MedStar Health in Columbia, Md., put it.
The nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD, acknowledged that achieving meaningful use of health IT would be hard work, and then told his audience of more than 600 health system and hospital CIOs and IT managers there would be even harder work ahead.
Mature electronic health record systems and health information exchange capabilities contributed to the success of five of the 10 accountable care organization (ACO) demonstration sites funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to a CMS official.
In a move that will broaden its identity verification offerings, Equifax, the credit reporting and business information company, announced Monday that it has acquired Anakam, a maker of large-scale, software-based, multi-factor authentication solutions for hospitals, HIEs and e-prescribing, among others.
Trying to build a critical mass of physicians to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) and participate in health information exchanges (HIEs) is one of the more difficult tasks for HIEs and regional health information exchanges.
Bonnie Cassidy, vice president of HIM product management at Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed and the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sat down with Healthcare IT News at AHIMA's 82nd annual convention and exhibit to talk about the importance of the health information management profession, and her vision for the future.
HIMSS has launched a State HIT Dashboard to provide healthcare professionals, policy makers and stakeholders a snapshot of major health information technology initiatives underway across the nation.
Carestream Health has announced that its new cesium iodide CARESTREAM DRX-1C detector is now available around the world in countries where it is approved for use.