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ATA kicks off in Austin

The American Telemedicine Association's 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show kicked off with a flourish on Sunday in Austin, Texas, as the trade organization works to drive adoption of distance-based care and prepare for rapid change as new virtual models are embraced.

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May 5, 2013

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Patient Privacy Rights hires CTO

Patient Privacy Rights announced Friday the appointment of Adrian Gropper, MD as its first chief technology officer. Gropper has worked with federal initiatives and the Markle Foundation to help create the Direct Project's secure email system and Blue Button technologies.

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May 3, 2013

Diana Manos

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A meaningful exchange?

Caradigm, the joint health IT venture formed by Microsoft and GE Healthcare, announced March 27 it would integrate health information exchange technology from Orion Health into its Caradigm Intelligence Platform.

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April 28, 2013

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Health IT hiring woes persist

U.S. healthcare providers nationwide have continued to experience difficulties with hiring and retaining skilled information technology professionals needed for the evolving healthcare landscape, according to new research conducted by global professional services company Towers Watson.

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April 28, 2013

Erin McCann

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HIE: Seals of approval

This spring, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is launching the pilot phase of its new health information exchange compliance-testing program.

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April 28, 2013

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Farzad Mostashari, policy panel takes critical look at CommonWell

At a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on April 3, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, MD, and other committee members took a hard look at the CommonWell Health Alliance, a new vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability.

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April 28, 2013

Diana Manos

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June 12th @ 2PM ET -- Million Dollar HIPAA Penalties for Healthcare

Recent headlines have raised plenty of eyebrows with record setting big-dollar penalties levied against healthcare organizations due to HIPAA violations. Industry experts surmise that this unprecedented trend is the result of significant changes that have occurred recently to HIPAA regulations.

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May 14, 2013

May 23rd @ 2PM ET -- Strategic Interoperability: Providing Solutions to Achieve Connected Care

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Do you still rely on tactical integration? Strategic interoperability can move your organization beyond tactical integration by connecting internal and external data, systems, and users across the broader IT ecosystem. This approach is increasingly critical to support a broad range of major healthcare initiatives including ACO, analytics, meaningful use, population management, device integration, and more. Strategic interoperability can deliver quick-to-achieve breakthrough clinical and operational benefits.

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May 6, 2013

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May 29th @ 12PM ET -- Quality eTrek: Next Generation Measures for Value

The CMS EHR Incentive program (commonly known as Meaningful Use) is not just about getting all providers to use EHRs. It’s creating a foundation of detail clinical and administrative data – all expressed in the same standard vocabulary – that can be used to automate the calculation and reporting of patient outcomes. With the shift from volume to value in care delivery and reimbursement models, comprehensive quality measures are an essential element – else how can we determine value? But the historical approach to measuring quality using manually abstracted data will not work in a healthcare environment focused on value. Quality metrics must be automated. The industry must shift to eMeasures – metrics calculated and reported based on data captured in the EHR as a by-product of care delivery. This spring, CMS published the timeline for implementing a unified set of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and e-reporting requirements intended to synchronize and integrate CMS quality programs and reduce provider reporting burden. Are you prepared to embark on the journey to the new generation of quality measures and reporting?

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May 6, 2013

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Embracing mounted AV technology to improve the patient experience

In healthcare organizations today, it's all about getting the most from the technology you choose by providing versatility. One monitor mounted on a wall in a patient room, programmed at the back end with applications, cable and other features, can deliver a host of multimedia choices. These can range from TV, movies, music, Internet access, email and games to educational information, treatment tips and even meal menus - far from the days of simple in-room television.

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May 6, 2013

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Use of RxNorm Within Information Exchange and Clinical Quality Measures

The Office of the National Coordinator has specified the use of RxNorm as the medication and medication allergy vocabulary constraint within certified systems which enable Meaningful Use Stage 2 clinical information exchanges. Specifications for the electronic computation of clinical quality measures (CQM) leverage “eMeasures” and their associations to medication and medication allergy value sets to enable the programmatic computation of summary CQM reports for CMS submission.

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April 30, 2013

May 28th @ 12PM ET -- Office 365: Using a Secure, Compliant Cloud to Transform email, Communication and Collaboration

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Microsoft Office 365 brings together online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync along with our familiar Office Professional Plus suite. It is designed to help meet healthcare organizations’ need for patient-centered collaboration, robust security and adherence to privacy regulations, including full support for a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement. Microsoft Office 365 provides the user experience, productivity, and IT management capabilities that healthcare enterprises have come to know and trust for mission-critical applications while affording decision-makers the flexibility in meeting challenging business scenarios through implementation and licensing options.

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April 25, 2013

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The VNA Strategy: Balancing Workflow and Enterprise Imaging Management

As healthcare providers implement health IT to comply with federal mandates and participate in quality of care programs, VNA solutions can play a critical role in helping them meet their needs today and in their future IT initiatives. Forward-thinking healthcare providers around the world are already successfully meeting this challenge with VNA. Download this Healthcare IT News eBook to learn how VNA enables exchange, supports data consolidation and IT simplification.

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April 16, 2013

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Apptix Healthcare Communications Solutions: Spotlight on Discovery & Compliance Archiving

The regulatory environment continues to become more stringent as HIPAA regulations require nearly every healthcare organization to maintain an easily accessible and complete archive of electronically stored information (ESI). Healthcare IT departments are pulled in many directions in order to stay aligned with federal requirements for access control, integrity, and transmission security for patient communications or implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. Managing communication systems is an unnecessary burden that ultimately distracts IT teams from contributing towards the improvement of patient care. Today, healthcare providers can turn to hosted services to more easily meet the security and privacy requirements for electronic Protected Health Information laid out in the HIPAA Security Rule, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH requirements, and other federal regulations.

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April 10, 2013

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Epic EMR & RightFax: Why Sutter Health Utlized Epic EMR with a Fax Server

In this webinar you will learn how Sutter Health pioneered the integration between Epic EMR and RightFax. Brett Reed, Sr. Engineer at Sutter Health, will review the Epic and RightFax integration and how RightFax streamlined their outbound faxing needs by moving to a fax server.

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April 9, 2013

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How Molina Healthcare Improved Efficiencies with Doctor Authorizations

Molina Healthcare providers managed healthcare services for over 4.3 million people in 16 states. Rajendra Kadam, IT Director at Molina Healthcare,will review the process of doctor authorizations at Monila and the improved efficiencies in implementing a fax server.

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April 9, 2013

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Fax in the Healthcare Industry

In this webinar you will learn about the healthcare information exchange and how fax plays a vital role in all healthcare organizations. Greg Horton, Program Development at OpenText, will review how suppliers, providers, payers and pharmacy organizations implement RightFax in order to keep documents secure and costs down while remaining compliant.

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April 9, 2013

Can Real-Time Clinical Surveillance and Predictive, Patient-Specific Analytics Drive Quality and Performance?

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In today’s healthcare environment, there is increasing internal and external pressure to improve outcomes, reduce costs and maximize reimbursement for patient care. All parts of the hospital have a stake in meeting these pressures. To maximize results, an integrated strategy to map detailed clinical information and supply clinicians’ timely and efficient navigational tools at the point of care, can allow teams to identify the highest opportunities and drive meaningful change and improvement. Learn how in this informative, interactive webinar.

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April 9, 2013

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Electronic Health Information Exchange Governance Framework Released

Last year, ONC issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather public input on a potential regulatory approach that would have spelled out “conditions for trusted exchange” (safeguards, technical, and business practice) through rulemaking, and establish a voluntary accreditation and certification process for validating organizations as being legitimate participants in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).

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May 7, 2013

Farzad Mostashari, MD

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A Massachusetts HIE Update

In the next few weeks, BIDMC will begin sending 50,000 patient encounter records per week through the state HIE (the MassHIWay) to our quality measurement service operated by the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative.

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April 10, 2013

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Is HIT interoperability in the nature of healthcare?

Anyone who understands the importance of continuity of care knows that health information exchange is essential. How are we supposed to cut waste and duplication from the healthcare system and truly focus on patient welfare if doctor B has no idea what tests doctor A conducted, or what the results were?

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February 14, 2013

Edmund Billings, MD

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The Health Information Exchange Hearing

The Standards and Policy Committees met on Jan. 29 in Washington in joint session to take testimony from expert stakeholders about health information exchange.

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January 30, 2013

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All the Tools in the Toolbox: How ONC Delivered Value In 2012

Today, as in last year’s New Year blog post, I will share with you a few of the ways in which ONC has interacted with you to meet its mission and mandate over the past year.

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January 23, 2013

Farzad Mostashari, MD

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2012 in Review

It's the time of year that many writers reflect on the major events of the past 365 days. I'll let the journalists cover the impact of the election, the epidemic of senseless violence, and the scandals of infidelity. To me, there were 5 major healthcare IT events in 2012 that we need to recognize and celebrate.

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January 3, 2013

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ONC Activities Support Governance of Nationwide Health Information Exchange

Earlier this year, ONC issued a request for information regarding a potential governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network. Based on the comments and feedback we received from multiple stakeholders, ONC announced in September that we would not be issuing federal regulations.

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December 21, 2012

Farzad Mostashari, MD

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Q&A with Leanne Field, Director of UT Austin's New HIE Laboratory

The University of Texas at Austin formally launches its Health Information Exchange (HIE) laboratory this week. This laboratory simulates the national, state and local networks that are being developed to electronically exchange medical data. To provide more insights on this initiative, we caught up with Dr. Leanne Field, director of the nine-week Health IT certificate program at The University of Texas at Austin. She was kind enough to participate in the following Q&A.

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December 14, 2012

Jon Mertz

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Healthcare System To Benefit From Recent HIE Progress

The stars seem to be aligned for rapid progress in health information exchange. We are fast approaching a point in the development of the Health Internet where ubiquitous exchange of health data to improve care coordination and health care quality and ultimately lower costs might be possible.

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November 27, 2012

Brian Ahier

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We Are Entering a New Era of Health Information Exchange

The Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange has been operating as an ONC program since 2007. For the past three years, a rapidly growing community of public and private organizations has been routinely sharing information in production.

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September 4, 2012

Brian Ahier

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Business is Booming in the World of HIT Start Ups

All together now, dear readers – repeat after me: Rock Health. Blueprint Health. Health Box. Have I missed any? Healthcare start up/incubator/accelerator programs – call them what you will – are popping up everywhere these days.

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August 24, 2012

Jennifer Dennard

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Meaningful Consent

One major issue facing private and public Health Information Exchanges (HIE) is how to ensure patients privacy preferences are respected by obtaining their consent before data is shared.

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June 20, 2012

Children’s Medical Center of Dallas First Hospital in North Texas to Connect with Health Information Exchange

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Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, the fifth largest pediatric healthcare provider in the United States, becomes the first pediatric hospital to connect to the North Texas Accountable Healthcare Partnership’s (NTAHP) Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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May 16, 2013

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ConnectVirginia announces EXCHANGE service with Inova

ConnectVirginia, the Commonwealth’s Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), is in the process of on boarding Inova, Northern Virginia’s largest health care system, as its first EXCHANGE partner.

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October 4, 2012

Harris Corporation and Scottsdale Health Partners Collaborate on Clinical Integration Solution to Improve Patient Care

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Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a three-year, $7.9 million contract from Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP), a newly created joint venture between Scottsdale Healthcare and Scottsdale Physician Organization, to implement its Clinical Integration Solution. The Harris solution will help SHP intensify its focus on care quality, safety, efficiency, cost reduction and patient experience while preparing for a healthcare environment dominated by population health management, accountable care and payment-for-value rather than volume.

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October 3, 2012

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All Northern Colorado hospitals connected to CORHIO

CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, announced today that all six northern Colorado hospitals are connected to the health information exchange (HIE).

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October 2, 2012

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Cognosante to work on Phase 1 of Massachusetts HIE

Cognosante, a provider of IT services for healthcare organizations, announced it was awarded a contract from Orion Health to provide integration and identity management for the first phase of the Massachusetts Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) program.

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October 2, 2012

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New York eHealth Collaborative celebrates five health IT champions

In the year since the first NYeC gala, there have been revolutionary advancements in health IT throughout New York and across the nation. On Monday, October 15th, five champions of health IT will be highlighted at the second gala and award ceremony.

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September 28, 2012

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Sandlot Solutions releases new report on HIEs

Sandlot Solutions, a leading healthcare information technology company, recently released The New Model of Health Information Exchanges: Using Data and Analytics to Improve Health Care Delivery, an industry report highlighting the evolution of health information exchange (HIE) and how advancements such as digital envelope technology drive new functionalities and capabilities. Fourth-generation HIEs extend beyond the simple exchange of patient records to the meaningful use of data for the delivery and coordination of care at the individual and community levels.

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September 27, 2012

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Aetna, Hunterdon HealthCare partner on ACO

Aetna and Hunterdon HealthCare Partners have announced a new accountable care agreement that will improve the quality and cost of patient care, helping members and plan sponsors save money.

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July 19, 2012

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University Health System taps Allcripts Community Record

University Health System, the lead trauma center for South Texas, will use Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, to share patient data with its facilities and the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center San Antonio. The Allscripts solution will help provide a single patient record for the many physicians and patients who use both facilities.

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March 8, 2012

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Southern Tier HealthLink expands use of Lawson Health Information Exchange technology

Lawson Software, an Infor affiliate, today announced that Southern Tier HealthLink (STHL) has successfully expanded its use of Lawson Cloverleaf® Hosted Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE). STHL is a non-profit regional health information exchange organization (RHIO) in central New York.

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January 9, 2012

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ACS, a Xerox company, helps Iowa modernize the way physicians share patient information

It used to be that sharing healthcare data amounted to patients taking paper copies of laboratory and radiology reports, medication histories, past diagnoses and immunizations from one doctor to another or relying on busy medical staff to fax records.

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January 5, 2012

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Statewide HIE contract awarded to Community Health Alliance

Community Health Alliance, Inc. (CHA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Virginia Department of Health for the Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). Specific services to be provided by CHA include establishing a Statewide HIE governance structure, creating and staffing the Statewide HIE organization, implementing the technical infrastructure, and managing the Statewide HIE’s operations on an ongoing basis.

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October 26, 2011