Tag Archive for ‘Meaningful Use’

“A Thousand Flowers Blooming”: Springtime for HIEs

The recent federal announcement of $547 million in grants released to facilitate health information exchanges (HIEs) at the state level is like spring hitting the data exchange landscape. How can state designated entities and HIEs make the most of the grant money? Lorraine Fernandes explains.

Notes from The National Forum on HIE – It’s About the Patient!

Lorraine Fernandes recently attended the National Forum on Health Information Exchange. She recaps some of the key discussions and reminders.

Architecting Trust into your Statewide HIE

States are now deep into the requirements gathering and planning phase of architecting plans to enable healthcare data sharing around each state. Chad Cosper reviews potential solutions in the quest to trust the data found in your statewide HIE.

Health Data Sharing Priorities & Plans Around the Globe

With increasing amounts of government funding for data sharing, many healthcare leaders are rightfully looking to other nations who have successfully traversed the HIE and data sharing path. But each nation’s priorities and plans vary widely. Lorraine Fernandes travels the globe with some of the lessons learned from other nations.

The Three Biggest Hurdles to Architecting a Successful State-Wide HIE

As states receive grants from the Office of the National Coordinator to plan and build state-wide health information exchanges (HIEs), they face several very real challenges. While designing and implementing an HIE that meets the needs of multiple participants and stakeholders, states face three major hurdles. Chad Cosper outlines these hurdles.

How Effective Can HITECH ARRA Incentives Be?

Recent press has discussed two opposite – and very interesting – approaches to HITECH ARRA incentives. To achieve widespread adoption of health information technology, leaders must push the issue of resources and reform from both sides. Penny Schyler explains and offers an example.

Better Health Interview with Lorraine Fernandes at HIMSS10

At HIMSS10 in Atlanta, Initiate’s Lorraine Fernandes sat down with Better Health to discuss a wide range of issues, including EMRs, meaningful use, linking patient data and more.

Connecting Community Physicians for Interoperability at OhioHealth

With a vision to implement a connectivity strategy for EHR deployment, ePrescribing and interoperability with community physicians, OhioHealth wanted to secure its reputation as a leader and maintain physician and patient loyalty. At the same time, OhioHealth is looking ahead to ARRA funding and paving the way for meaningful use compliance.

Making a Case for Provider Registries or Directories

Historically, little federal or state policy level attention has been paid to managing provider identifies. One exception is the National Provider Identifier (NPI) called for under the HIPAA legislation and promulgated by CMS. Many use cases were envisioned by the organizations, as well as the workgroup members during their open discussion. Let’s briefly look at this heightened demand from a federal and state perspective.

How to Divide the HIT Pie

While healthcare organizations determine how to meet an undefined component of meaningful use, I’ve been approaching this complex challenge by thinking about a health information exchange pie with four slices – labeled local, regional, state and national. But the slices are each a different size.