Lab Orders and HIEs
Certification Requirements Needed to Transmit Lab Orders Ken Willett CEO/CTO of Ignis Systems Corporation A recent posting on Michigan Health Connect indicates that while this state-wide HIE…
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CCHIT to Test EHR and HIE Interoperability
CCHIT Q&A on Interoperability and Stage 2 Our attendance at MGMA12 gave us an opportunity to meet up with many of our colleagues in the…
ECRI Looks at Best Practices for Reducing Risk, Improving Patient Safety
Assessing Patient Safety The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The…
HIE Best Practices: Preparing for Health Information Exchange
Storing Data within Health IT Systems Kyle S. Murphy, Senior Editor EHRintelligence.com .. Health information exchange is both a network enabling the exchange of health information…
ONC Challenge on Cancer Care
Video Challenge for Health IT and Cancer Care In September 2009 President Obama outlined and initiated his Strategy for American Innovation. He called on agencies…
EHR Implementation Resources on HealthIT.gov
NLC’s EHR Implementation Lifecycle If you have’t visited HealthIT.gov yet or recently, you are not “putting the I in health IT” as they would say….
ONC Looks to Test Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures
ONC Commissions Cypress as Open Source Reporting Tool Last week the ONC released specifications for the 2014 eCQMs finalized in Meaningful Use Stage 2 of the EHR incentive…
Five Tips to Make Patient Privacy Part of Your Organizational DNA
Best Practices to Minimize Data Breach Risks and Maintain a Culture of Privacy Compliance Data breaches in healthcare are raising alarm. Nearly 20 million patient…
MGMA Spotlights Industry Leaders on State of Healthcare Panel
The Healthcare Industry Evolves in Changing and Uncertain Times Will the elections have an impact on physicians, payers, hospitals, or public and private purchasers of…