EMR adoption is up from 2011 at U.S. hospitals but six key barriers remain, according to a survey commissioned by the Optum Institute for Sustainable Health published Feb. 15.

The capabilities of the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE) started as an unfunded idea in 2005 when legislation created the Kentucky eHealth Network Board.

The cost, complexity and inflexibility associated with traditional EHR systems continues to discourage some healthcare organizations from adopting them and although new approaches like cloud computing could eliminate those barriers to adoption, they are currently constrained by federal regulatory legislation and oversight, according to an article in the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

"Sustainability" is not a word typically associated with health information exchange (HIE). Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect reveals its strategies for building an HIE sustainable through expansion and continuum-wide provider inclusion.

This session demonstrates how a regional health information organization (RHIO) provides measurable value by assembling a comprehensive medication list delivered at the point of care. The data reveals quality, safety and efficiency improvements.

Transaction standards were first written into HIPAA legislation in 2000 to create standardized routes for healthcare organizations to exchange financial and administrative data, but they left too much room for interpretation and the result has been chaotic, according to a Jan. 17 article in the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.

In a complex, unfamiliar frontier where healthcare competitors must become partners, many providers face the enormous pressure of working with developing health information exchange (HIE) solutions in order to meet meaningful use requirements.

Learn the trends, clinical results and lessons from a physician organization using health information exchange to improve care coordination and quality management through clinical decision support, advanced quality measures and EMR interoperability.