Healthcare de Jure Debuts on Air Monday May 9
By Matt Fisher – Dropping HIPAA Insights: Audits Will Not Result In Fines – The first Healthcare De Jure show was recorded on Tuesday, April…
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Quarter Million Investment to Coordinate Healthcare for Kids and Families
Great Lakes Health Connect (GLHC) and key partners across the region and state announced that children and families from Flint and Genesee County will benefit from detailed care coordination and enhanced communication capabilities through a major health information technology investment. This initiative is designed to help address and mitigate the longer term health effects and needs that may arise after lead exposure related to the Flint water crisis.
Watsi for Urgent Healthcare Crowdfunding
In August 2012 a small group of people launched a crowdfunding website to enable donors to directly fund urgent healthcare procedures for needy people around…
T-System Honors Healthcare Organizations For Improving Care Delivery
T-System Inc. announced the five recipients of their sixth annual T-System Client Excellence Awards, chosen from more than 1,900 facilities nationwide that have implemented its…
2015 Year in Review for the FHA
December brings with it holidays, colder weather (usually), and the chance to sit back and review the 2015 calendar year. It was a busy year for our federal partners and FHA as teams focused on numerous projects and deliverables, including the Healthcare Directory, Patient Consent & Authorization, Directed Exchange, and the Enterprise Architecture.
Serving the American Healthcare Revolution
By Matt Patterson MD – In my ritual of year-end reflection, I am struck by an unshakeable parallel between the general healthcare climate today, and the atmosphere surrounding the late stages of the American Revolution and the start of our fledgling nation.
Healthcare Vendors Agree to Interoperability Metric During KLAS Keystone Summit
Key EMR solution executives and healthcare provider organizations convened at the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, to help solve the key interoperability challenges facing the industry.
AHRQ: Making Health Care Safer and Higher Quality for Every American
By Richard Kronick PhD – The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, an agency within HHS, is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America’s health care system.
Changing the Culture of Healthcare
By Dinesh Sheth – Why is it that patients are slow to take charge of their health records? Some articles suggest that management of health information should be a patient-driven initiative and the points that are used to propagate this idea are not without merit.