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HIE Rundown 4-15-16

This week’s HIE rundown includes: EHNAC collaborates with the Cooperative Exchange to enhance the Accreditation process, Black Book ranks Cerner No. 1 open system HIE provider, & PerfectServe expands its user base to approximately 58,000 physicians.

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HIE Rundown 3-14-16

This week’s HIE rundown includes: ONC launches the Interoperability Proving Ground (IPG), Caradigm announced the launch of Open Exchange, and DataMotion Health announces new platform capabilities for sharing info & communicating.


HIE Rundown 2-15-16

This week’s HIE rundown includes: Cal INDEX and Orion Health ‘Future Proofing’ first ever payer-led HIE, Jitterbit releases healthcare interoperability platform and solutions designed to improve patient care, and Stanford Health Care launches custom android MyHealth mobile app.


HIE Rundown 1-21-16

This week’s HIE rundown includes: eHealth Technologies & Baystate Health announce expansion of HIE Services, drchrono partners with ZocDoc to sync medical records & online appointment booking, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles achieves electronic medical records milestone.


How Do We Achieve Coordinated Health Care?

By Robert Rowley MD – A recent study of healthcare organizations showed that most are not prepared to deliver standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. Shared care plans will be the centerpiece of coordinated care delivery, incentivized by the move from fee-for-service to value-based care.


HIE Rundown 12-09-15

This week’s HIE rundown includes: Validic and higi partner to advance remote patient monitoring and patient wellness initiatives, Carequality adds new members to public-private collaborative, & Stanford Children’s Health and other healthcare leaders turn to next-generation medical image management platform from DICOM Grid.


Conversations About Coordinated Care in Rural Arkansas

By Dr. Gary Bevill & William Taunton – Initially a four-doctor practice, SAMA Healthcare Services is breaking ground in coordinated, patient-centered health care in rural El Dorado, Arkansas. Although SAMA doctors had known early on that this is how they wanted to practice medicine, they could do only so much until they got support from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, an Affordable Care Act program. Dr. Gary Bevill and SAMA patient William Taunton recently talked about the initiative.


HIE Rundown 11-12-15

Health information exchange is happening all around. This week’s HIE rundown includes: Coordinated Care Oklahoma partners with Kno2, HealthGrid introduces industry’s first M-Health CRM platform, & iSpecimen and the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) announce novel program to support medical research.


The Role of Virtual Desktops in Healthcare

By Dana Tee – The other day, I was sitting in my doctor’s office as she pulled up my patient profile on her computer and started typing away. It seemed like a normal visit – and in most ways it was. However, a few things were missing. There was not a single folder, pen, pencil, or piece of paper to be seen – the sterile room was completely digitized.