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By Mary Mosquera | 02:28 pm | June 12, 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to develop verification data and services to support coverage and eligibility infrastructure for health insurance exchanges and seeks industry information about applications that are available.
By Patty Enrado | 11:01 am | June 12, 2012
Catholic Health Initiatives is partnering with Orion Health to build an enterprise-wide HIE that will enable physicians and clinicians to access patient records across its 100 facilities in 19 states. Once connected, CHI plans to link to statewide HIEs in states where its 76 hospitals are located.
By Patty Enrado | 10:43 am | June 12, 2012
Catholic Health Initiatives is partnering with Orion Health to build an enterprise-wide HIE that will enable physicians and clinicians to access patient records across its 100 facilities in 19 states. Once connected, CHI plans to link to statewide HIEs in states where its 76 hospitals are located.
By Tom Sullivan | 06:04 pm | June 11, 2012
Questions being posed at the Government Health IT Conference in Washington this week relate to standards, EHRs, HIE, and distributed queries -- all geared toward public and population health.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:22 am | June 11, 2012
The VA and DoD are setting a model the rest of the country will want to follow with the joint iEHR. Traficant explains the SOA piece of iEHR, and the brilliance of bringing in the open source community.
By Diana Manos | 12:33 pm | June 08, 2012
Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner says health reform enables accountable care organizations, among other things, to bridge public and private health.
By Diana Manos | 11:11 am | June 08, 2012
If it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the government would not have had the framework and authority to help support the movement toward accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Thursday keynote.
By Roger Foster | 11:53 am | June 04, 2012
In the final episode of his six-part series on bolstering public health with big data, Roger Foster looks toward big data's promise of preventing health conditions, and outlines some of the challenges, notably the need for data scientists.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:11 am | June 04, 2012
David Collins of HIMSS on the theme of this year's show, how the federal health IT landscape has changed since last year, and the hot topics about which attendees will learn.
By Kate Spies | 09:31 am | June 01, 2012
Eric Swanson, who spearheads Michigan's Center for Shared Solutions and Technology Partnerships, explains the state's MiCloud initiative, benefits, challenges, and the entrepreneurial spirit fueling the transition.