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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NHIN Exchange: 'Beyond the science fair level'

The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Exchange isnt a futuristic proof of concept, like a model hydrogen-powered hovercraft at a high school science fair. This was the message of a National eHealth Collaborative webinar, Revisiting the NHIN Value Proposition, earlier this week that featured speakers from Kaiser Permanente, MedVirginia and the Social Security Administration.

Q&A: Laheys path to HIE leads through portal

Lahey Clinic depends on keeping its referring physicians satisfied. Implementing a health information exchange (HIE)by way of a physician web portalis one way it has been able to do so, said Peter K. Dempsey, MD, CMIO and vice chair of the department of neurosurgery at the  500-physician multispecialty group practicein Burlington, Mass., during a recent interview with CMIO.

Q&A: N.Y. HIE aims to increase access, data types

From its roots as a collaboration of the New York State Health Plan Association and Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, the Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) has grown to provide services in a 17-county region comprised of approximately 1.5 million healthcare consumers in the Greater Capital Region. Dominick Bizzarro, CEO of HIXNY, recently spoke with CMIO about the HIEs continuing plans for expansion.

CSC debuts SaaS tech for HIEs

CSC has unveiled its Coverage Exchange 360 software-as-a-service (SaaS) line to provide implementation and infrastructure services for health insurance exchanges.

New York HIE goes live using InterSystems platform

The Healthcare Information eXchange of New York (HIXNY), which serves healthcare facilities and patients in 17 counties in the Albany region and northern New York, has implemented InterSystems' HealthShare as its health information exchange (HIE) platform.

Berry to lead National eHealth Collaborative

Kate Berry has been named CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, a Washington, D.C.-based public-private partnership that advocates for nationwide health information exchange.

New Hampshire HIE plan approved

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Health IT has received approval of its health information exchange (HIE) strategic and operational plans.

Northeastern Pa. HIE signs Covisint for clinical messaging

Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange (NEPA HIE) has selected cloud computing software developer Covisint to assist with clinical messaging support.

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