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Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., has selected Medicity as its partner to build a community-wide health information exchange (HIE).
Healthcare management company MEDecision has been awarded a contract by the state of Minnesota to provide the technology for a personal health record (PHR) program being developed for state employees and their dependents.
Written by William F. Bria, MD, CMIO
Better communication is more than simply a matter of putting all necessary information together in one place. I’m reminded of that every time I come to work at the VA facility in Tampa, where everything’s there, in the VistA EMR, but there’s so much there that it’s impossible in a one-hour outpatient visit—never mind the usual allotted 20 minutes of outpatient clinic time—to complete a review of what’s happened since the physician last saw the patient.
Memi Tech has introduced the 911 Medical ID USB wallet card, a healthcare tool aimed at enabling users to manage and share their personal health information.
RIS/PACS developer DR Systems used virtual computing infrastructure technology from EMC to create eMix, a cloud computing service for sharing medical imaging studies.
Wednesday, May 05 2010
Nearly 40 percent of healthcare consumers have expressed discontent with the status quo, rating the U.S. healthcare system a “D” or “F” and most want to be engaged in their care, according to the 2009 Survey of Heallthcare Consumers from healthcare research firm Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City have developed a computer-based system, Valkyrie, which may hold the key to tracking patient-specific radiation dose exposure during CT scan, according to a study presented May 3 at the 2010 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in San Diego.
Written by Jeff Byers
BOSTON–Better monitoring is needed to understand how EMRs and health information exchange (HIE) impact the patient’s experience of care and best practices need to be shared to improve these technologies, Barbra G. Rabson, executive director at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners reported Thursday at the Health IT: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality national conference, hosted by Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick.
Written by Mary Stevens
Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), an independent community hospital in Lawrence, Mass., aims to install an all-new integrated hospital-wide information system to streamline patient care. “We have been maintaining 30 to 40 interfaces trying to keep our data flowing,” said Neil Meehan, DO, the newly minted CMIO at LGH.
Americans who have access to their health information through personal health records (PHRs) report that they know more about their health, ask more questions and take better care of themselves than when their medical information was less accessible to them in paper records, according to a survey from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF).
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Written by Gina Narcisi
Referring to the leveraging of health IT as “information therapy,” Christine Sinsky, MD, from Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans in Dubuque, Iowa, said that by providing a way for patients to have access to their personal health information, shared medical decision-making between the physician and the patient is facilitated.
Axolotl unveiled its Elysium Open Access web services-based platform at the HIMSS10 show in Atlanta last week. In addition, the company demonstrated its integration capabilities with a variety of other vendors’ systems at the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase.
Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Kaiser Permanente has reported that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with its HealthConnect, a private-sector EHR system.
ATLANTA–At the HIMSS10 conference this week, McKesson displayed a variety of EHR software ranging from systems for large hospitals and networks to products for small physician practices.
The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the internet can help patients and their physicians work more efficiently together to manage chronic conditions, according to research at Cleveland Clinic.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Integrated Medical Home program at the National Naval Medical Center leverages personal health records and e-connectivity to support a chronic/primary care model that is capable of sustaining quality healthcare and accentuates prevention and wellness.
Written by Editorial Staff
Sunday, February 28, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Learn and discuss how to leverage the approved HITSP Remote Monitoring specifications to improve patient care. When done properly, these investments also will facilitate more reliable, safe, cost-effective, and secure interoperable health data collection, sharing, and decision support for EHR, EMR PHR, health information exchange and health Internet applications.
Written by Editorial Staff
Clinical decision support has reached a critical juncture. Technology improvements enable CDS systems to gather a wider variety of patient data to provide more useful advice that assists clinicians’ decision making. Converging standards and integration initiatives enable more stand-alone CDS tools to work together in actual systems.
The TriZetto Group has released its payor-based personal health record (PHR) to consumers and physicians through health plans.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.