Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued a health IT strategic plan for 2011 through 2015 for public review.

Kaiser Permanente this week has opened a new Center for Total Health near Capitol Hill.

Kudos to David Blumenthal, MD, as he returns to his academic work after what many in the health IT realm view as a stellar two-year run (and we do mean run) as the nation’s health information technology chief.

With each advance in medical imaging, the role of radiology in healthcare becomes more central and the need for clinicians to have immediate access to medical imaging data more critical.

Connecting has never been more critical.

The Health IT Standards Committee has begun exploring some of the functions that electronic health records should be capable of performing in Stage 2 of meaningful use, with providers using health information exchange to send patients their information to a personal health record (PHR) a prominent example.

The ONC announced earlier this week that more than 60 healthcare and health IT organizations - from EHR vendors to integrated delivery systems to state-based and private-sector HIEs - have expressed their support for the Direct Project's simple and secure messaging protocols.

Military healthcare provider will help fortify Fusionfx HIE platform

The ease with which IBM’s Watson computer dispatched its human opponents on Jeopardy! this past February was something to behold.

Parody project becomes sly marketing campaign for two IT vendors