Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

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Information exchange activity increasing, according to AHA/ONC survey

Almost one-quarter of hospitals are finding, sending, receiving and using data electronically and those that do all four activities are nine times more likely to report they have information available at the point of care compared to those who report doing none of those activities.

ACEP work group details ways to improve HIE

A paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine offers recommendations for improving a national health information exchange that would improve the state of emergency medicine. 

NJ HIE receives $2.9M ONC grant

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a $2.9 million grant to the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) to improve the sharing of quality data through the New Jersey Health Information Network. 

HIE study shows reductions in test duplication

Use of health information exchange has had a significant effect on the duplication of tests, according to researchers at the Brookings Institution in cooperation with HEALTHeLINK.

MeHI offers grants for information exchange

The Massachusetts e-Health Institute has launched a new grant program that seeks to bolster the exchange and use of EHR exchanges among providers.

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Pa. grants to help provider connect to HIEs

The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority has awarded onboarding grants of $675,000 to help connect hospitals and ambulatory practices to the authority’s Pennsylvania Patient & Provider Network, or P3N. 

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Healtheway rebrands, expands mission

Healtheway has been renamed The Sequoia Project and expanded its mission and goals for the next decade.  

Use of HIEs has changed

Healthcare providers' use of health information exchanges (HIEs) has changed in recent years, according to a report presented to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. 

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