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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Task force: How to make mHealth routine by 2017

HIE: Focus on consumers

Not surprisingly, patients are generally okay with the electronic storage and transmission of their health information as long as privacy and security safeguards are in place. This from research published in the September/October issue of Annals of Family Medicine.

Weekly round-up: Flurry of activity

What strikes me while reviewing the news we’ve published this week is the sheer volume. This indicates a lot of activity on the health IT front, mostly for the good.

Kansas HIE will dissolve

The board of directors of the Kansas health information exchange (KHIE) has voted to dissolve itself and turn its operation over to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, according to a report from the Kansas Health Institute.

HHS awards online tool that helps track public health concerns

An online tool to help local public health officials track health concerns in real time in their communities using Twitter is now available.

Participatory healthcare hurt by provider attitudes, poor quality of online health info

BOSTONDespite a growing body of evidence suggesting that patients can make valuable contributions to their healthcare, they are too infrequently asked and are often discouraged from participating, according to the panelists of a Sept. 15 presentation at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 Congress.

Utah insurance exchange hacked

The Utah Health Exchange, a state insurance exchange whose development started several years before the healthcare reform law mandated exchanges, was recently hacked, with words garbled, headlines blurred and some pages inaccessible.

Patients approve of HIE, but want strong security measures

Patients are generally okay with the electronic storage and transmission of their health information as long as privacy and security safeguards are in place, according to research published in the September/October issue of Annals of Family Medicine.

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