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.
Sacramento Summit Focuses on Role of Health Information Exchange in Transforming California’s Healthcare Environment
SACRAMENTO, CA – May 3, 2013 – California health information leaders will gather in Sacramento on May 8-9 to discuss the latest initiatives for advancing health information exchange (HIE) across the state to support critically needed transformation of California’s healthcare envirornment . The program will engage Summit participants on critical steps necessary to continued expansion of statewide HIE. Read the press release.
NextGen Healthcare’s Inpatient Clinicals Receives 2014 ONC HIT Certification
HORSHAM, PA – May 3, 2013 – NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced that NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals version 2.6 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an electronic health record (EHR) Module on May 1, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable Hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
First Databank Hosts Webinar on Information Exchange in EHR Systems
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 2, 2013 – First Databank (FDB), a leading provider of clinical drug knowledge that helps improve medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, will be hosting a free webinar entitled “Use of RxNorm Within Information Exchange and Clinical Quality Measures,” to be held on May 14, 2013 in conjunction with leading industry publisher Healthcare IT News.
MedAllies CEO A. John Blair III, MD, elected DirectTrust chair
FISHKILL, NY – April 30, 2013 – MedAllies CEO A. John Blair III , MD, has been elected chair of DirectTrust.org Inc., an independent association created by and for participants in the Direct community and dedicated to secure health information exchange (HIE) between providers and patients. Blair expects association to address gaps in interoperability, trust and security. Direct, a national effort to fast-track electronic information exchange, benefits physicians and patients by improving the transport of health information across different electronic health record (EHR) systems.
West Florida ACO Chooses Sandlot Solutions as Partner in Patient Health Information Management
FORT WORTH, TX – Apr 30, 2013 – Sandlot Solutions, a healthcare information technology company, and West Florida ACO, an accountable care organization (ACO), announced a new partnership that will support the management of health information for thousands of patients across more than 25 physician groups and multiple health facilities in Florida. The two organizations will work together to create the infrastructure needed to support the ACO and its partners. West Florida ACO will deploy Sandlot Connect, Sandlot Dimensions and Sandlot Metrix. Sandlot Connect and Dimensions are core Sandlot components that gather and sort patient information that providers can access at the point of care. Further, Sandlot Metrix provides health data analytics, in the physicians’ EMR, to enhance individual care management and ultimately population health management.