Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
Patient Matching Challenge Dataset Available
The goal of the Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge (@ONC_HealthIT) is to bring about greater transparency and data on the performance of existing patient matching algorithms, spur the adoption of performance metrics for patient data matching algorithm vendors, and positively impact other aspects of patient matching such as deduplication and linking to clinical data. Participants must use the new data set and will then have their answers evaluated and scored against a master key. Up to 6 cash prizes will be awarded with a total purse of up to $75,000.00. Visit the Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge website to participate in the Patient Matching Challenge.
The Medical Society of the State of New York and DrFirst Offer MSSNY Physician Members a Mobile E-Prescribing App
DrFirst (@DrFirst), the market leader in delivering intelligent medication management solutions that improve patient safety, and the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) have announced a partnership to bring mobile e-prescribing to MSSNY members. DrFirst, the exclusive, recognized e-prescribing vendor for MSSNY, is offering a free one-year license for MSSNY members who sign up by July 31, 2017.
Lipscomb University’s College of Pharmacy Joins Hashed Health Consortium Supporting Healthcare Blockchain Initiatives Through Research and Education
Hashed Health (@HashedHealth), a healthcare innovation company leveraging blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for transformation in the healthcare industry, announced Lipscomb University’s College of Pharmacy (@lipscomb) as the first academic organization to join its consortium. Lipscomb’s College of Pharmacy is partnering to educate, innovate and build healthcare technology solutions on blockchain and distributed ledger platforms. This partnership with Lipscomb’s College of Pharmacy is the university’s initial entrance into the blockchain space with curriculum, classes and internships on blockchain technology along with professors conducting research.
Rucker suggests ONC policy
Politico Morning eHealth reported on ONC (@ONC_HealthIT) setting direction with new leadership. The “ONC brass are worried foremost about EHR usability and spurring interoperability.” Read Arthur Allen’s take.
Burgess® Launches Burgess Source™
Burgess, a leading cloud-based solution provider serving healthcare payers, introduces Burgess Source, a first of its kind platform that natively brings together payment integrity, pricing, contract terms configuration, audit and real-time business intelligence. By combining these fragmented elements into one system, Burgess Source is the most effective way to prospectively avoid inappropriate and inaccurate reimbursement, maintain a point to point compliance trail and model healthcare payments.
openAirWare and Clinical Architecture Provide Toolset to Ease Healthcare Data Sharing Woes
Clinical Architecture (@ClinicalArch), the leading provider of healthcare terminology management solutions, and openAirWare (oAW) (@openAirWare), a health IT connectivity solutions provider, have partnered to enable more sophisticated data sharing through advanced integration tooling.
Verato® and Forcare Partner to Provide Tightly Integrated, Best-of-Breed Health Information Exchange Solution
Verato, Inc. (@Verato_Software), a leading provider of cloud-based patient matching and master patient index (MPI) solutions, announced a partnership with Forcare (@ForcareBV), a leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions. The partnership will enable healthcare organizations that pursue a best-of-breed technology strategy to rapidly deploy an end-to-end HIE platform that includes a best-in-class MPI. In doing so, organizations can address the full range of challenges surrounding information exchange — from efficiently storing and exchanging clinical data to ensuring that the correct data is linked to the correct patient at the time of exchange.