Patient Engagement in Health IT: The New Frontier
Do doctors resist health information exchange with patients? Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD Health technology tools are rapidly emerging, a swirling rising tide of products…
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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…
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…
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….
Improving Use of Health Information Technology in the Clinical Setting
Improving Patient Safety Through Electronic Health Record Simulation William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Most tools used in medicine require knowledge and…
The Wrong Question on Electronic Health Records
Paper-Based Records Part of a Broken Healthcare System By Dr. Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha The wrong question always produces an irrelevant answer, no matter how…
Hospitals – Are You Ready for Health Information Exchange?
10 Key Readiness Indicators for Health Information Exchange ECRI Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient…
Nationwide Health Information Network Comes of Age
Healtheway to support eHealth Exchange By Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology& Government 2.0 The Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange (NwHIN Exchange, or just Exchange) has been…
Meaningful Use Stage 2: A Giant Leap in Data Exchange
Meaningful Use Stage 2 and HIE Highlights Dr. Farzad Mostashari National Coordinator for Health Information Technology HealthIT Buzz The CMS and ONC Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules we just…