N.Y. state plans large EMR network
The N.Y. Department of Health and the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative have submitted a proposal to spend $129 million in state and federal money on a network that will allow all medical records to be accessed statewide. The plan would create the country's largest network for EMRs, according to the proposal.
The plan, submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), is to build and implement a statewide EMR network that will serve hundreds of hospitals, thousands of practitioners and up to 20 million patients, according to the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative.
Once completed, N.Y. doctors anywhere in the state will have access to critical medical records of every patient, eliminating the confusion and lost time that often accompanies the sharing of medical records between different healthcare providers.
The proposed network will link several regional electronic medical record networks with new infrastructure and programming. State agencies would set policies to govern the system’s implementation and maintenance. Currently, healthcare providers can share medical records with certain neighboring medical institutions.
The Statewide Health Information Network for N.Y. (SHIN-NY) will allow patients and healthcare providers to have access to histories, prescriptions, test results, medical analysis and diagnoses and more, anywhere in the state at any time, the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative stated.
The proposal would establish a preliminary timeline for the implementation of many of the core services the network can provide—ranking them in priority—and foresees new services being added every several months between mid-2011 and 2014.
The statewide network will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care by providing the right information to the right clinician at the right time—regardless of the venue where the patient receives care, according to the collaborative. This ability will change the way healthcare is delivered to patients in N.Y., with doctors using new technology to track patients' care with instant feedback and analysis, eliminating the need for handwritten charts and prescriptions, for example, added the collaborative.
The plan, submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), is to build and implement a statewide EMR network that will serve hundreds of hospitals, thousands of practitioners and up to 20 million patients, according to the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative.
Once completed, N.Y. doctors anywhere in the state will have access to critical medical records of every patient, eliminating the confusion and lost time that often accompanies the sharing of medical records between different healthcare providers.
The proposed network will link several regional electronic medical record networks with new infrastructure and programming. State agencies would set policies to govern the system’s implementation and maintenance. Currently, healthcare providers can share medical records with certain neighboring medical institutions.
The Statewide Health Information Network for N.Y. (SHIN-NY) will allow patients and healthcare providers to have access to histories, prescriptions, test results, medical analysis and diagnoses and more, anywhere in the state at any time, the N.Y. eHealth Collaborative stated.
The proposal would establish a preliminary timeline for the implementation of many of the core services the network can provide—ranking them in priority—and foresees new services being added every several months between mid-2011 and 2014.
The statewide network will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care by providing the right information to the right clinician at the right time—regardless of the venue where the patient receives care, according to the collaborative. This ability will change the way healthcare is delivered to patients in N.Y., with doctors using new technology to track patients' care with instant feedback and analysis, eliminating the need for handwritten charts and prescriptions, for example, added the collaborative.