Tag Archive for ‘Patient Registry’

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.

Challenging Your EMPI to Do More

In this economy, it’s all about doing more with the resources you already have. Healthcare organizations are challenging their embedded EMPIs to do more to improve patient care – and the bottom line.

Three Essential Keys to Transforming Health IT

For any hope of successful implementation and adoption of Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, there are three essential keys: reliability, integration into workflows and cost effectiveness.

Using Relationships to Improve Patient Care

Knowing key relationships among data can improve patient care. Providers must understand when and where data needs to be routed while identifying the status of a caregiver acting on the patient’s behalf.

Extending the Business Impact of EMPI

Healthcare organizations are trying to maximize the value of existing technology and improve financial and clinical performance under tight fiscal constraints. If you’re already using an EMPI, it’s time to figure out how to do more with existing assets and infrastructure.

A Document Registry for Patient Data Sharing

The capability to locate and link documents and images that comprise a patient’s medical history is critical to the foundation of interoperability and clinical data exchange. What’s unique about Initiate’s document registry?