Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHSÂ filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
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Using EHRs for Health Information Exchange and Interoperability
EHR Use in Health Information Exchange The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health and Human Services (HHS) with a…
Health IT Business News Recap – April 7, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News At HIMSS13 in New Orleans last month one of the biggest stories, if not the biggest, was the announcement…
Health IT Business News Recap – March 24, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News HIMSS13 is the conference that just keeps giving. Held earlier this month in New Orleans, the conference gave us…
Limitations of Medical Device Data Systems as a Feeder of an EHR
EHR Meets MDDS COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu With the exception of imaging and lab results, the EHR…
Annual NeHC Survey Looks at Health IT Stakeholder Challenges for 2013
National eHealth Collaborative Releases Health IT Stakeholders Survey National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership with a mission to advance the secure and interoperable exchange…
HIMSS Hosts Virtual Educational Session on HIE, Interoperability
Health Information Exchange, Interoperability and Standards: Enablers to Health IT Transformation In case you didn’t get enough interoperability at the HIMSS13 conference last week or…
Social Interoperability
By Keith Boone, Healthcare Standards Every now and then a string of words will get put together, and peoples ears perk up, and you realize…
Leading Health IT Vendors Form Alliance to Advance Interoperability
Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth Announce Ground Breaking Alliance to Enable Integrated Health Care HIMSS13, NEW ORLEANS –Â Top health care information technology (HIT)…