I think the largest constituent missing from the Health Information Exchage (HIE) is the consumer, the tax payer. I am talking about the average person who doesn’t live and breath EHRs, security, technology, and the Healthcare industry. The focus has been on getting providers with a carrot and stick to implement EHRs and Meaningful Use […]
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Harness Clinical and Financial Data with Enterprise Health Information Exchange
Enterprise Health Information Exchange (EHIE) is a key way to empower physicians and patients to demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). In this presentation, I discuss the business case for EHIE and discuss some of the organizations and products currently leading the market. Let me know what you think! (You can also watch […]
Harness Clinical and Financial Data with Enterprise Health Information Exchange (Webinar this week)
As Martin Sizemore said in a recent post to this blog: “Information and data exchange is critical to the delivery of quality patient care services and effectiveness of healthcare organizations…The solution is a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) which is an initiative that aligns the areas of technology, interoperability, standards utilization, harmonization, and business information systems […]
Let’s work on the demise of the healthcare clipboard!
The solution is a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) which is an initiative that aligns the areas of technology, interoperability, standards utilization, harmonization, and business information systems necessary to make the elimination of the healthcare clipboard possible.
Enterprise HIE
It seems that everywhere you look someone is talking about HIE or claiming to have an HIE product. But is there widespread adoption, and for it’s intended use? HITECH requires that the provider market invest in HIE, but how do you ensure that you protect your investment from all the hype. In the short term […]
CRM for HIE and REC – just what the doctor ordered.
We’re seeing a lot of interest in using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to market to, communicate with, and to track provider interests and relationships in HIE’s and REC’s. If you haven’t thought about using CRM for this purpose yet, here is why you might want to…
Is your EHR due for its check up??
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) continue at the center of the National debate on improving quality of care and stemming the tide of rising healthcare costs. Providers are heavily invested in EHRs and their investments continue to rise dramatically. However, inspite of the huge investments being made, organizations do not seek regular check ups and ‘second’ […]
Meaningful Use, Getting some real usefulness for your organization
Ok, we have all been hearing, reading and discussing Meaningful Use for over a year now. ARRA this, HITECH that, I’m sure everyone is ready for a change. However it doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon (if ever), so the real question is how does your organization get real value […]
Why the Meaningful Use criteria won’t increase provider adoption levels…
Ultimately we all expect that healthcare IT will improve the quality of care and lower costs. I was *hoping* that the Meaningful Use (MU) criteria would help get us there by solving the biggest issue that we have today – low levels of provider adoption of EHR. I was *hoping* that the MU criteria, combined […]
Security of Health Information – where to start
Many thanks to Feisal for his comments on security. I am noticing a new awareness in healthcare regarding security and privacy of PHI. The original HIPAA regs on these topics were enforced (look here for enforcement and resolution data) when a complaint was made. But no proactive procedure was in place to ensure that you […]
Question: What Drives HIE participation?
In February 2009, the federal government passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) providing much needed support to an industry that has struggled in a financially challenging landscape. The federal government is projected to spend at least $300 million in support of health information exchange (HIE) activities in 2009 and 2010. While it is […]
Three keys to HIE Sustainability
Billions of dollars are being granted, gifted, and invested in Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) across the country. A previous Commonwealth Study that appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine estimated $178 billion will be needed to create regional and national networks. With all that said, very few Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have achieved a business/operating […]