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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

 Ahead of many other states, 66 percent of Indiana acute care hospitals are connected, enabling them to receive information electronically through a health information exchange or HIE. more

 Health information network in Southwest Ohio will be the largest exchange in the U.S. Dayton, OH – The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA) today announced its partnership with HealthBridge, a not-for-profit health information exchange located in Cincinnati, to establish health information exchange services for the Greater Dayton region. This partnership will create one of the nation’s largest secure health information networks connecting hospitals and physicians in Dayton and Cincinnati. Once the Dayton-Cincinnati health information exchange is complete, more than 50 hospitals and 7,500 physicians will be connected across Southwest, Ohio. more

The ability to transform healthcare delivery at the community level requires information and tools for both consumers and providers—not one or the other, said Aaron McKethan, program director for the ... more

With federal funds, the state’s two Regional Extension Centers (RECs) can help you adopt or improve an Electronic Health Records system. The more

HealthLINC Can Guide You Through the Process of Achieving "Meaningful Use" The Tri-State Regional Extension Center (REC) is one of a select group of organizations throughout the U.S. designated ... more

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 terms of widespread adoption. Journal News Editor Laura Landro discusses some of the challenges facing the medical industry as they look to digitize health records. more

Final awards of state health information exchange cooperative agreement program work to build health information exchange infrastructure throughout the states    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today ... more

Federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now targeted to Indiana. Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded nearly $1 billion ... more