Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Clinicians from ChristianaCare and Mount Sinai describe how they're leveraging EHRs, outside vendors, interoperability groups and immunization registries to manage the logistical complexity of multi-dose regimens for far-flung patient populations.
Since its initial go-live in March 2020, the UK-based GNCR initiative has reached a number of milestones.
As he focuses on shoring up data-sharing resiliency and ensuring that new IT initiatives bake in SDOH as a "fundamental design criterion," the new national coordinator also reminded people about an important April 5 start date.
The Idaho Health Data Exchange goes beyond many traditional HIEs, incorporating advanced data sharing capabilities and actionable data insights. Its master patient index has proven quite useful during COVID-19.
Image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.
Population Health
In an era of more seamless information-sharing, decision-makers have a renewed chance to address health inequities.
Capps, a physician who comes to the Georgia health system after nearly two decades at North Carolina's Novant Health, will also serve as chief digital officer.
The nonprofit healthcare alliance reported that more than 265 million Direct Secure Messages were sent and received in the fourth quarter alone.
As COVID-19 continues to surge in Los Angeles, LANES is enabling free-flowing data insights – medical, behavioral and socioeconomic ─ to close information gaps and improve clinical decision support for better outcomes.
As National Coordinator for Health IT, the interoperability veteran will bring deep standards expertise as the rubber hits the road on nationwide API-based data exchange.