New Orleans—The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) is opening the pilot phase of a new health information exchange (HIE) compliance testing program at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. The commission also is revealing program seals designed to help healthcare providers identify HIE certified technology.

NEW ORLEANS—Meaningful Use (MU) served as not an IT project but “recognition of something we had already done,” said Leland A. Babitch, MD, MBA, assistant professor of pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine and former CMIO of Detroit Medical Center, who presented the inpatient perspective of MU during the AMDIS Physicians’ IT Symposium during the HIMSS annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—Meaningful Use certified technology is the starting point, but not the goal, for healthcare transformation, said Karen M. Bell, MD, chair, Certification Commission for Health IT, during a March 3 educational session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—Comparing the different approaches that five states took to implement a health information exchange (HIE), researchers discovered different technical infrastructure approaches and services provided; however, the states faced common challenges with sustainability and governance, based on research presented March 3 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

March 6, 2013, 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | This session will examine the top five privacy and security considerations for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions in healthcare that both the user and the organization need to consider.

March 4, 2013, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Healthcare organizations looking to provide private healthcare information exchange (HIE) capabilities to their clinicians (and to potentially connect to regional, state, and national exchanges) have some difficult decisions ahead.

Kansas Health Information Network, the state's nonprofit, provider-led health information exchange, has successfully transmitted data from the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas to the Kansas Immunization Registry.

Clinician-to-clinician Direct messaging is now available across New York as part of the Statewide Health Information Network of New York, or SHIN-NY.