Health Information Exchange (HIE)
HIE
AHIMA, CHIME, HIMSS and others say lack of support for a nationwide patient identity strategy has stymied innovation, cost hospitals revenue and put patient safety at risk.
HIE
The network also noted a big uptick in e-prescribing, with 77 percent of all prescriptions now delivered electronically, including a substantial increase in EPCS.
Electronic Health Records
A new public-private advisory council will work to build out the information exchange, which providers used to access health data for patients displaced by the California wildfires.
Electronic Health Records
The new Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) scheme will build on solutions already in place, with five regions set to receive £7.5m that will have to be matched locally.
HIE
Providers across the state will have access to a single comprehensive continuity of care document via the Wyoming Frontier Information Exchange, which aims to connect with providers in Colorado and South Dakota.
Accountable Care
The revenue cycle management firm buys Informatics Corporation of America (CareAlign) for an undisclosed sum, eyeing improved service for clients managing MACRA and more.
Analytics
The hospital says the TriNetX network gives its patients the chance to participate in clinical trials they otherwise might not know exist.
HIE
Sequoia Project CTO/CIO Eric Heflin joins ONC’s core data project while David Kibbe is leaving his CEO post at DirectTrust.
HIE
HIMSS and SHIEC offer a day-long symposium that finds consumerism influencing interoperability these days, like so much else in healthcare.
HIE
The collective aims to give providers the full prescribing history of patients to reduce opioid misuse and abuse.