A think tank with a healthcare task force chaired by former Senators Tom Daschle, a Democrat, and Bill Frist, MD, a Republican, is advocating for improved and better-used health information technology. Among the group's recommendations is "robust" data exchange.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA, may be the driver for connecting HIEs to P4P, said Janet Marchibroda, chief healthcare officer for IBM.
Janet Marchibroda, who has served as chief executive of the eHealth Initiative since its founding in 2001, is moving to IBM to take a position as chief healthcare officer.
The economic stimulus funding for healthcare IT was a major topic of the Western States Health-e Connection Summit & Trade Show, which wrapped up March 3, at the Phoenix Convention Center.
WASHINGTON - The nation's healthcare IT chief, Robert M. Kolodner, MD, says a new report released by eHealth Initiative shows tangible evidence of healthcare IT progress.Kolodner...
The eHealth Initiative has released its "Fifth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State and Local Levels," a survey of 130 community-based initiatives in 48 states, showing...
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ARE MORE INVOLVED in health information exchanges than ever before, though they don't necessarily conform to the RHIO geographical format, the results of a new survey show....
WASHINGTON - A new study cites social capital, or stakeholder goodwill, as one of the key components to self-sustaining health information exchanges....
ARLINGTON, VA - When William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, convened a stakeholders meeting in September, he was hoping to found a Health Record Banking Association. Instead, attende...
WASHINGTON - The number of health information exchanges in the United States has increased over the past year, and more of the organizations are exchanging clinical data, accord...
ARLINGTON, Va. -When William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, convened a stakeholders meeting in earlier this month, he was hoping to found a Health Record Banking Association. Instea...
In the face of what it characterizes as a "programmatic and financial review," the Foundation for eHealth Initiative says it has filed all outstanding documents demanded by the federal agency overseei...
In response to the threat of a federal audit, the Foundation for eHealth Initiative says it has filed all outstanding documents demanded by the agency overseeing millions of dollars in healthcare IT g...
The Health Information Technology Summit West convened Monday with a call to industry stakeholders to take advantage of what summit co-chairwoman Janet Marchibroda called "an enormous amount of moment...
networking initiatives form and take shape, a growing number of statewide initiatives are under consideration.As of early 2005, at least 15 states have some form of electronic h...
In various difficult and long treks to start healthcare information networks, many hard lessons have been learned.The Foundation for eHealth Initiatives is developing a forum f...
