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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KLAS: HIE consulting firms pleasing providers

Providers are happy with the third-party health information exchange (HIE) consulting firms they do business with. Nearly all provider respondents to a recently published KLAS survey said they were highly satisfied with their HIE consulting firm and two-thirds said their firm met or exceeded expectations.

HIE growing pains

It appears that health information exchange (HIE) is going through some growing pains. The Health Information Partnership for Tennessee is closing shop three years after it was formed to orchestrate statewide HIE efforts.

VA launches pilot to empower PCPs to treat chronic conditions

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will employ a unique model of healthcare education and delivery as it attempts to connect local primary care providers (PCPs) of remotely located veterans with specialists located primarily on academic medical center campuses.

ONC workgroup issues recommendations for reporting lab results

A workgroup formed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to address the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) requirements for reporting laboratory results using Direct Project standards recently released its recommendations.

eHI tells ONC to take time with nationwide HIE

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) should take its time to develop a carefully constructed governance mechanism for the Nationwide Health Information Network with support from all of healthcares stakeholders, according to the eHealth Initiatives response to an ONC request for information on the topic.

ONC: Access to personal health information getting easier, barriers remain

An informed patient is a healthy patient. Having access to personal health information (PHI) helps patients manage their health better, make informed decisions, improve their likelihood of positive outcomes and contributes to lowering system-wide healthcare costs. Despite the benefits and the capability in the form of personal health records (PHRs), barriers still prevent access to PHI, according to a June 3 policy brief from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

AAFP lists three conditions for NwHIN governance

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has included three conditions necessary for optimal use of Direct protocols in its comment letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in response to a request for information on governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).

Tenn.'s statewide HIE votes to shut down

The Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIPTN) is closing shop. Three years after the organization was formed to orchestrate statewide health information exchange (HIE) efforts, the HIPTN board voted on June 15 after meeting with state officials to begin winding down operations.

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