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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Surescripts network adds major health systems

Surescripts, the nation’s largest health information network, has added nearly 100 major health systems to its network so far in 2014.

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Calif. HIEs sign interoperability agreement

Eight community and enterprise health information exchanges have signed the California Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement, which promotes health data interoperability, according to the California Association of Health Information Exchanges.

Charting a course towards HIE governance

Health information governance is one of five key components of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s 10-year interoperability vision, and the agency currently is immersed in establishing “rules of the road” to further exchange, said Jodi Daniel, director of ONC's office of policy planning, speaking during a Sept. 18 webinar corresponding with National Health IT Week.

HIE Market by Setup Types (Public & Private), Vendors (Web Portal & Platform), Implementation Models (Centralized, Federated, & Hybrid), Application (Interfacing, Secure Messaging) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2018

NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2014-- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Health Information Exchange (HIE) Market by Setup Types (Public & Private), Vendors (Web Portal & Platform), Implementation Models (Centralized, Federated, & Hybrid), Application (Interfacing, Secure Messaging) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2018

Mid-America Regional Council Expands Safety Net Clinic Health Information Exchange Initiative

Cranbury, NJ, August 28, 2014 -- The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and BluePrint Healthcare IT announced the expansion of MARC’s Health Information Exchange Initiative by adding a second group of six safety net organizations in Kansas and Missouri. Working with three hospitals and three Health Information Organizations, the initial group of ten safety net organizations achieved the first goal of digital care coordination, replacing the exchange of paper forms and faxes with secure electronic DIRECT Messaging.

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HIEs: The Quest for Value

The prognosis for health information exchanges (HIEs) is anyone’s guess.

HITPC subgroup begins work on ‘thorny’ HIE governance

A subgroup charged with forming a governance structure for health data interoperability across networks shared its draft framework at the Health IT Policy Committee meeting as a prelude to formal recommendations expected in mid-October.

AHRQ seeks public input on HIE

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is seeking scientific data from the public in inform its systematic review of health information exchange, which currently is being conducted by the evidence-based practice centers for the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program.

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