Industry
CMS Unveils New Web Site for Meaningful Use Incentives
Meaningful Use The nation’s healthcare system is undergoing a transformation in an effort to improve quality, safety and efficiency of care from the upgrade to ICD-10 to information exchanges of EHR technology. The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs are designed to support providers in this period of transition, but the impact of this historic [...]
Breaking Down the Barriers
When health-care providers exchange electronic medical records, costs go down and patient care goes up To understand the potential of shared health records, consider the Bottone family. Almost everyone agrees that health information technology could create more effective and more efficient systems in the medical world but we still face a number of hurdles in [...]
Learn these basics to start preparing to earn stimulus dollars
The AMA has provided these answers to basic questions about the health information technology (HIT) incentives available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or stimulus bill.* Keep reading ISMA Reports for details about qualifying for this federal funding.
SURESCRIPTS ANNOUNCES HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Industry Leaders to Guide Development of Prescription History Service for HIEs ALEXANDRIA, Va. and ST. PAUL, Minn. – Feb. 16, 2010 – Surescripts, The Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced it has formed a committee to help guide the company’s development of a prescription history service for health information exchanges. The HIE Advisory Committee will help [...]
KLAS questions vendor claims on HIEs
OREM, UT – Vendors may suggest that many successful health information exchanges have been built with their technology, but the reality is different, according to a new report from KLAS. A small number of vendors – with Axolotl among the top – have risen to the challenge enough times to claim a proven, repeatable model, [...]
Quality Health Network Extends Health Information Exchange to New Regions in Western Colorado
Aspen and Montrose Go Live on Axolotl’s Elysium Exchange San Jose, CA and Grand Junction, CO – February 1, 2010 – Quality Health Network (QHN), one of the most celebrated and successful health information exchanges (HIE) in the country, and Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in HIE solutions and services, are pleased to announce [...]
Webinar: No one financial ‘silver bullet’ for HIE funding
There is no one financial silver bullet to funding a health information exchange (HIE), according to Keith Hepp, vice president of nonprofit HIE HealthBridge who spoke during a Webinar broadcast Dec. 22, 2009, sponsored by California eHealth Collaborate (CAeHC). CAeHC’s weekly Webinars provide presentations from national subject matter experts speaking on a variety of topics [...]
Government Pushes To Create A New Health Internet
Hoping to provide the backbone for a grand plan to put the nation’s medical records online, federal officials have been quietly retooling an obscure government data-sharing service into a robust new Health Internet. The concept has drawn intense interest from technology firms, including Microsoft and Google, which are scrambling to find new–and profitable–uses for digital [...]
What is ePrescribing?
Planning and Preparation American Medical Association ama-assn.org ePrescribing uses networked computer technologies to automate your prescribing processes. You simply sign on to a system, access patient information and prescribe an appropriate medication. The prescription can be sent immediately to the pharmacy. Along the way, the system offers instant access to patient medication history, [...]