The eHealth Initiative recently released the second phase of the third generation of its Health Information Exchange (HIE) Toolkit, an online resource to empower health care leaders managing the challenges associated with developing, adopting, operating, and sustaining a health information exchange.Phase II of the new eHI Toolkit is now online and available to the public. This "primer" addresses the next steps needed for starting an HIE - creating a sustainable model, technical aspects of
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Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability
Both provider organizations and medical device vendors have made significant, if slow-going, progress over the last several years to network their digitally-enabled medical devices. Recent strides in both the regulatory and standards arenas have provided renewed impetus on the part of both stakeholder groups to bring more interoperability to disparate medical devices, resulting in better security and quality of patient data.As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing
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Download: Associations Endorse Delay In Stage 2 Meaningful Use Attestation
Summary: In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelieus on June 16th, organizations including the American Medical Association and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society say there should be at least an 18 month gap between the file rules on stage 1 meaningful use certification and standards, and the start of the second stage meaningful use attestation for electronic health records from 2013 to 2014.Download the June 16 healthcare
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Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization Inc. Launches Innovative Medication History Service
In an emergency department (ED), where patients’ health and safety hang in the balance, every second counts. Now, Inova Alexandria Hospital ED clinicians can quickly access a patient’s prescriptions information, no matter where in the U.S. they were written, enhancing care quality and safety.The April medication history service launch in this busy Washington, D.C. suburb ED marks the first project milestone for the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO). This
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Mobile Application Spotlight: HP tests its new Mobile Health Monitoring Solution in Singapore
Link mobile health monitoring devices with cloud computing in the right way and you can change how we practice medicine. That's the vision behind HP's Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution, a new, always-on, cloud-based healthcare offering that builds on research conducted at HP's Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab in Singapore.In a joint effort between HP in Singapore, telecommunications giant SingTel, medical device maker HealthSTATS and Singaporean health provider Frontier
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23% of U.S. Hospitals Plan to Invest in Patient Access Solutions for Eligibility
CapSite™ announces the release of the 2011 U.S. Patient Access Study. The study represents the latest in a series of CapSite strategic industry reports focused on the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) market.The statistically significant study represents unique Voice of Customer (VOC) insight from more than 500 U.S. hospitals on the market opportunity, market share, vendor mind share and adoption of various Patient Access solutions
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Career Spotlight: What Do CEOs Look for in Interviews?
Seventy CEOs walk into a room …Top executives are often the objects of wry humor and close scrutiny over their compensation and strategic fumbles as well as the financial performance of theircompanies. In his new book, "The Corner Office", Adam Bryant takes a different, more personal tack: He focuses on the qualities that have put them into positions of leadership and their perspective on how employees can thrive and advance their own careers at any level.Bryant uses more than 70 interviews
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Video: Introduction to the New HIMSS ICD-10 Playbook
Juliet A. Santos, MSN, CCRN, FNP-BC, Senior Director of HIMSS Business-Centered Systems and the HIMSS Medical Banking Project, introduces the HIMSS ICD-10 Playbook, which provides critical information to assist hospitals, ambulatory centers, practitioners, and their staff in transitioning to ICD-10. The PlayBook was developed by HIMSS staff with support from the Medical Banking and Financial Systems Committee, ICD-10 Task Force, ICD-10 PlayBook Work Group, and 25 organizations including
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ICD-10 Survey Shows Urgent Need for Education
J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA) has announced results from an ICD-10 survey sent to its U.S. hospital client base. The ICD-10 Final Rule sets out a specific date, Oct. 1, 2013, by which all entities impacted by HIPAA must convert to and begin using new ICD-10 code sets. ICD-10 conversion means major changes in coding rules, terminology and structure and an eight-fold increase in the number of codes. Providers face both the prospect of productivity losses, and possibly,
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What Connected Community of Health Means to Members of North Shore-LIJ Health
North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System has a vision for a connected community. Various stakeholders within the organization explain what that vision means to them.
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