Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Patient Centered Medical Home initiative follows patient home
While lawmakers in Washington continue to duke it out over the federal budget, many experts are saying the $27 billion allotted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reward providers for healthcare IT adoption should be secure, mainly because healthcare IT has bipartisan support.
David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health information technology, announced his departure from the ONC just 17 days before the HIMSS11 conference began on Feb. 19 in Orlando, Fla. Blumenthal came onboard just two weeks prior to HIMSS09.
Salaries jump 30 percent in six years
Health, technology and other organizational professionals with desires to implement a thriving and successful health information exchange (HIE) should start by remembering the parts of speech they learned in elementary school.
Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Technology Office of the United States, previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank.
While much has been written about the philosophical underpinnings, goals, governance requirements, organizational models, economic theory and possible benefits of commercial and Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), relatively little has been said about the technology infrastructure that is required for successful operation of an ACO.
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) has launched a new Center for Accountable Care. The goal, according to PCPCC, is to help ensure that a "strong, robust patient-centered primary care model is at the foundation of accountable care organizations nationwide, and that programs and policies related to ACOs help maintain this focus."
Hospital executives and patients agree that healthcare needs a revamp, and they're looking to information technology to make that happen, according to a recent survey. But when it comes to their technology desires and concerns there are some differences.
Lack of resources, lack of internal control over patient information and lack of training leaves many healthcare organizations ill-prepared to address privacy and security risks and medical fraud, according to a new report by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.