Health Innovation


HIE Rundown 5-27-16

Here’s what’s happening to make that reality – ZeOmega and McKesson announce strategic partnership to advance payer-provider collaboration; Military Health System improving, expanding information sharing; HIMSS Health Information Exchange community opens the HIE Measures & Enterprise survey


CMS Approves Alpha II as a 2016 PQRS Registry

Alpha II, LLC, a leading developer of software platforms, software as a service and publications that support the healthcare revenue cycle, announced that it has been qualified by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as a Physician Quality Reporting System Registry for the 2016 PQRS program year.




CDS Moves Compliance from Dismal to Dismal

By William Hyman – One use of a Clinical Decision Support system (CDS) is to remind doctors of what the “established” standardized methodology is. One key issue here is established by whom? Another is, depending on complexity, why the clinical staff doesn’t follow the established procedure whether or not it is supported by a CDS.


$2.2 Million OCR Settlement for Egregious Disclosure of PHI

By Bob Grant – The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced that NY Presbyterian Hospital would be required to pay a $2.2M settlement after the “egregious disclosure” of two patients’ protected health information. NYP allowed an ABC film crew and staff from the show “NY Med” to film two patients, one of whom was dying, and another experiencing serious distress.