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Continuity of care document could be boon to public health efforts
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD), a standardized format for clinical summaries that can be exchanged between disparate electronic health record systems, could greatly advance public health initiatives, according to a new paper in the American Journal of Public Health .
Statewide HIEs pilot links to long-term/post-acute-care providers
Statewide health information exchanges in four states--Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland and Oklahoma--are using "challenge grants" from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to
EHR vendor cooperation vital to interoperability workgroup
The agreement by seven states, eight electronic health record vendors, and three health information exchange vendors on an initial set of standards for exchanging health data is a major step toward
Google Health's demise spells trouble for 'untethered' PHRs
Google's decision to pull the plug on its Google Health platform, effective Jan. 1, 2012, is not unexpected. As John Moore of Chilmark Research points out, there have been numerous warning signs
Patient portal use becoming an inevitability
Members of the Health IT Policy Committee, a government advisory body, recently debated whether Stage 2 of meaningful use should require the use of web portals to provide patients with online
Orion, Health Language Inc. partner in new HIE approach
Orion Health, a developer of health information exchanges, and Health Language Inc., which specializes in mapping the myriad medical terms for the same concepts to a single terminology, have joined
CCDs help UPMC coordinate care across various settings
The continuity of care document (CCD), a standardized care summary designed for information exchange among different kinds of electronic medical records, has not been widely used up until now. But
