Tag Archive for ‘Patient Registry’

A Real-World HIE

We have several RHIO and HIE customers who are sharing data amongst themselves on a daily basis, improving care for real patients. Bill Klaver details how the pieces work together to deliver improved healthcare and better decisions.

Differences in Managing Patient and Provider Data: Unanswered Questions

Deanna Nole has been busy working with customers and focus groups to identify the most important requirements to manage provider information across the health system. There are major differences in managing patient and provider data; however, not all the questions about those differences are yet understood. Add your feedback and experience.

Connecting with Other HIEs

As you build your health information exchange, you must also consider how you’ll securely connect with other HIEs, including NHIN. Bill Klaver explains the role of the XCA/XCPD gateway and how they work together.

Webinar: The Strategic Value of Health Information Exchange

Join us on Thursday, June 24 for a webinar, The Strategic Value of Health Information Exchange at UMass Memorial Health Care, and hear the strategies, goals and objectives for HIE. This exceptional case study will provide a helpful discussion to help you launch your own HIE.

Standards vs. IHE – What’s the Difference?

While there is an increasing call for healthcare providers, payers and specialists to share information across the ecosystem, work must still be done to further agree upon standards for exchanging data. Bill Klaver examines the relative roles and implications of standards and groups like Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).

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.

Serving the Underserved: Exchanging Information to Improve Rural Health Care

Health information exchange has significantly impacted the way healthcare is delivered in Louisiana. Jamie Welch, Chief Information Officer at the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, Inc. (LRHC), and Information Technology Director of the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), shares their experience with HIE and previews her upcoming presentation at HIMSS.

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.

Initiate & Accenx – Onwards towards HIMSS

Initiate Systems’ recent acquisition of Accenx will help extend healthcare organizations’ view of patients beyond their facilities’ walls. Michelle Blackmer explains how.

BHIX Success: Sharing Information Around Brooklyn

Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX) was formed in 2007 to improve the quality of healthcare for 2.5 million Brooklyn residents. Learn how BHIX met the challenge of needing a highly scalable, secure and reliable patient registry to accurately link patient records across systems and facilities.