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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HIE Chronicles Part VII: Data flow gets the green light

This is the seventh installment in CMIO's exclusive web series exploring the birth of Rhode Islands statewide health information exchange (HIE), featuring the leading stakeholders and clinical perspectives on its development.

Q&A: Demonstrating the power of data

When it comes to EHR implementation, "weve gone from dead in the water to someone that people want to emulate, says Ryan Champlin, vice president of operations at Cook Childrens Physician Network, a Texas organization that includes 300 doctors with offices in Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker and Tarrant counties. Champlin recently spoke with CMIO about Cooks transition from flailing EHR implementation to a model for successful adoption.

Alembic debuts CONNECT-based HIE software

The Alembic Foundation has released Aurion 4.0, open-source health information exchange (HIE) software based on the Federal Health Architecture's CONNECT framework.

Four hospitals join N.Y. RHIO

Community General Hospital, Crouse Hospital, St. Josephs Hospital Health Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital and Laboratory Alliance of Central New York are now connected to HealtheConnections, a regional health information organization (RHIO), and can share consolidated medical histories via a health information exchange (HIE).

Driscoll Childrens Health Plan selects Sandlot for HIE

Driscoll Childrens Health Plan will use Sandlots SandlotConnect health information exchange (HIE) technology to streamline data sharing throughout the Driscoll healthcare community.

HIE and physician handoffs

The question-and-answer session at the end of a presentation is usually a good way to gauge an audiences issues associated with a particular topic. Case in point: The final minutes of a recent National eHealth Collaborative webinar, One Size Does Not Fit All: Exploring Various Forms of Exchange.

Information exchange: Know your use cases

The numbers are impressive for HealthBridge, an HIE serving the greater Cincinnati tri-state region. Today the HIE delivers more than 3 million clinical messages per month; provides technology and business support for five other independent HIEs; and has a network that includes more than 50 local hospitals in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.

Metro-Chicago HIE planned

The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) plans to develop the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE), which is expected to be the largest metropolitan HIE in the nation, serving more than 9.4 million people.

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