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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Maine paves the HIE path

A session during the iHT2 Health IT Summit offered details on the successful health information exchange effort in Maine, which includes every hospital in the state, links 400 practices and facilitates 13 million messages.

Delaware Health Information Network and Halfpenny Technologies Expand Medical Results Delivery

BLUE BELL, Pa.--Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. and the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) announced today that they have signed an agreement that will enable the delivery of clinical results to DHIN’s enrolled practices using the physician practices’ electronic health records (EHRs) software. Halfpenny Technologies has partnerships with numerous EHR companies that currently serve DHIN enrolled practices. This agreement, utilizing Halfpenny’s intelligent integration technology hub, supplements the wide range of services provided by DHIN.

Health IT Summit: Adding value to HIEs

BOSTON--“I can’t tell you how many times I said no. There was no business case; it was like suicide. But I took the job anyway,” said Devore Culver, executive director and CEO of HealthInfoNet, Maine’s health information exchange, on why he took the position. He spoke during a panel session at the iHT2 Health IT Summit on May 14.

AHA: 6 in 10 hospitals exchange data to outside providers

More than six in 10 hospitals electronically exchange health information with outside providers, according to the American Hospital Association’s annual health IT survey, which was published online by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. This represents a 51 percent increase since 2008.

Settlement requires R.I. HIE to boost transparency

Rhode Island’s health information exchange, CurrentCare, must offer more transparency and develop more protections for patient privacy, according to a settlement agreement reached between the Rhode Island Department of Public Health and the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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DirectTrust expands network, increases testing

Non-profit trade alliance DirectTrust, which promotes health information exchange via the Direct Protocol, has expanded its national network.

Detailing the Mass HIE launch effort

BOSTON—The Massachusetts health information exchange—the Mass HIway—was launched in the fall of 2012 through two grant mechanisms, awareness, testing and a lot of communication, said Sean Kennedy, MS, PMP, MPH, director of Massachusetts eHealth Institute, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

Kentucky leverages HIE to target ER ‘frequent fliers’

With an eye toward reigning in state healthcare costs, Kentucky officials are looking to its health information exchange to help providers target emergency room super utilizers, or "frequent fliers."

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