Health Information Exchange, Interoperability and Standards: Enablers to Health IT Transformation In case you didn’t get enough interoperability at the HIMSS13 conference last week or…
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2013 Agenda to Focus on Improving Care through Health IT Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National…
CCHIT Announces HIE Certification Pilot Program at HIMSS13 CHICAGO – Today, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is announcing the opening of the pilot…
This Week’s Health IT Business News “Now is the winter of our discontent”, goes the opening line of Shakespeare’s Richard III. The last couple of…
Little Attention to Date on Meeting Hiring Demands of Health Information Exchanges The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and HIMSS have created a collaborative…
WEDI offers free membership to government agencies The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
Sponsored Research Aims to Further Our Understanding of HIE The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) supports research on the many variables…
HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees Hold Hearing Tomorrow Tomorrow, January 29, 2013, the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee will…
The use of acronyms and abbreviations has been decried in healthcare because of the potential for confusion when they are misunderstood. So now we have HIE which means, variously, Health Insurance Exchange, or Health Information Exchange. The Affordable Care Act has mandated Health Insurance Exchanges (HIE) which are to be new state systems, or a default federal