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Imagine a medical practice easily accessible to patients via telephone or online, where your care is thorough, unhurried and personal. Your records are maintained electronically, making them instantly available to clinic providers and referral physicians. Coordination with specialists and community healthcare resources occurs swiftly and smoothly. You develop a care plan with your doctor and work together with your healthcare team to achieve your goals. Healthcare payers give incentives to the practice for the value of the care it delivers, rather than for the volume of care. That’s the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). more

The 17 model health IT communities that are testing certain interventions for specific conditions and populations will be able to document and share their results through the Beacon Evidence and Innovation Network. more

Better to Best represents unprecedented accord among stakeholders Washington, D.C. March 30, 2011-- New models of care, such as patient centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, must emphasize value-driving elements of advanced primary care--enhanced access, better care coordination, use of health information technology to support care transformation, and payment models that reward coordinated care. more

What can Inland Northwest Health Services, Norman Regional Health System, MedVirginia, HEALTHeLINK and Quality Health Network teach other health information exchanges—and possibly your organization—about sustainability, integration, practice management and EMR adoption? Read on to discover what makes these five regional HIEs worth watching. more

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded $16 million in new Challenge Grants to encourage breakthrough innovations for health information exchange that can be leveraged widely to support nationwide health information exchange and interoperability. more

WASHINGTON – In a broad State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation. more

Comment on "Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems" In this issue of the Archives, Romano and Stafford report on the effect of electronic health records (EHRs)—both with and without clinical decision support (CDS)—on physician adherence to evidence-based guidelines. more

Award Celebrates Leadership and Excellence in eHealth OMAHA, Neb., January 20, 2011 — NeHII, Inc., Nebraska’s statewide integrator for Health Information Exchange, today announced Dr. Harris A. Frankel, President of the NeHII, Inc. Board of Directors, has been selected to receive the eHealth Physician Advocate of the Year Award from the eHealth Initiative (eHI). more

 Executive Summary -- November 2010   The passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) has resulted in a continued increase in the number of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) across the United States. The Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) remains active in its role "to bring together Pennsylvania’s health care and business stakeholders to develop a vision and a plan for the future of health information technology (HIT) and the secure exchange of health information in Pennsylvania". How to maintain financial sustainability is a major question raised by community, regional, and state-level HIEs. more

December 17, 2010 By Kenneth Adler, MD, Rick Harper, PhD, Robert Hoyt, MD A patient shows up at the emergency room unconscious and unable to give a history. Another patient arrives at his primary care physician's office 3 days after an emergency room visit, and the primary doctor has received no information. A specialist sees a third patient for a consultation and receives none of the critical records needed to help her make the consultation efficient and effective. These scenarios and many others like them, unfortunately, are all too commonplace. The consequences of incomplete information at the point-of-care can be inconvenience, inefficiency, increased costs, and adverse, even life-threatening outcomes for patients. more