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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Image-Enabling Your HIE: Why Now?

Sponsored by Vital, a Canon Group company

There’s a new trend in HIEs–image sharing. Universal viewers are linking physicians with images to allow review anywhere. It’s time to take a look.

Orion Health™ Rhapsody® Integration Engine Enables Vermont’s HIE

BOSTON--Orion Health, a leading global, privately-owned health software organization, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) to incorporate its Rhapsody® Integration Engine into the Vermont state-wide Health Information Exchange (HIE) which is running on Medicity’s HIE solution. VITL is the exclusive operator of the Vermont Health Information Exchange (HIE).

Survey: Majority say HIEs not providing value

The vast majority of providers and payers using health information exchanges are skeptical about the networks' future, according to the results of a survey conducted by Black Book.

ONC Annual Meeting: NY providers share impact of health IT

Costs for delivering diabetes care dropped 17 percent per patient at Crystal Run Healthcare in Middletown, N.Y., thanks to the implementation of health IT-enabled quality measures, said Gregory Spencer, MD, chief medical officer. He spoke during a panel discussion on health IT’s impact on care delivery for New York-based providers at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s annual meeting on Jan. 23.

Michigan HIEs set to merge

Michigan's two largest health information exchanges plan to merge, creating one of the largest such organizations in the country, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Rush Health launches HIE

Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinically integrated network of physicians and hospitals, is launching its own health information exchange that will use advanced population health software to improve care quality, care coordination and patient outcomes, according to an announcement.

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Measuring health IT's ROI

We’ve heard a lot about specific studies and pilot projects about the changes wrought by health information exchange. Surely, more will come. This month, the Institute of Medicine released a proposed model that seeks to help hospitals and health systems assess the ROI on EHR adoption.

New EHNAC criteria support latest federal legislative rules

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission announced the adoption of new program criteria that support the latest healthcare reform legislative rules, including the HIPAA omnibus rule.

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