Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Its news Data Usability Workgroup will build implementation guides to help facilitate more useful health information exchange and more intuitive clinical workflows.
HealthShare Exchange President and CEO Martin Lupinetti shares lessons learned about data quality and reaching seniors during the pandemic.
Adding clinical decision support and the ability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital enabled, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use.
The innovation grants for state and regional health information exchanges will help them innovate their data sharing capabilities during public health emergencies – from pandemics to wildfires.
Phoenix-based Health Current and Denver-based CORHIO, which together connect more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, said the new consolidated HIE could eventually be "the largest health data utility in the West."
Chesapeake Regional Information System, MedStar Health Research Institute and other LEAP in Health IT awardees will launch new projects focused on use of FHIR and other exchange specs across a variety of use cases.
The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are varied, and patients are known to have rapidly changing signs and symptoms that must be tracked with laboratory testing.
In a webinar organised in conjunction with the Argentine Ministry of Health, leaders from the country and across the region highlighted that the pandemic has created an opportunity to promote progress in the digital health agenda.
Adding clinical decision support and the capability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital enabled, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use at CalvertHealth Medical Center.
The pandemic caused the Arkansas provider to change implementation plans midstream. Now the EHR is an invaluable pandemic tool, and is hooked up to the state HIE.