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NewsNAHIT name game gives some vendors a headache
In theory, it doesn't make sense to move ahead with major IT initiatives until the industry has at least some clue as to how to define key terms. However, a recent effort by the National Alliance for Read more...
California RHIO targets diabeticsA Santa Cruz, CA-based health information exchange has developed a diabetes disease registry which has significantly improved providers' ability to identify and treat diabetics in their care. The network, which includes two hospitals, labs, radiology, pathology and transcription services, share information using technology from vendor Axolotl. About a year ago, the providers began using the technology to develop the registry, which identifies likely candidates for the disease and triggers … Read more...SPOTLIGHT: Another take on secure HIEA Wisconsin task force has completed its research on what barriers exist to creating secure, private interoperable health information exchanges--and it looks like getting even a single statewide health data network going won't be a picnic. Five particularly large obstacles, it found, included developing a common method for validating health information requests, finding ways to share information in a timely way, ensuring that information was complete, discovering ways to tie in … Read more...Long-lived CA RHIO shuts downThe Santa Barbara County (Calif.) Care Data Exchange has closed, brought down by a mix of funding issues and privacy concerns. The Exchange, which was perhaps the oldest RHIO in the country, was launched in 1998 with $10 million in funding from the California Healthcare Foundation. While Exchange members had figured out how to share information securely, the organizations involved were still concerned about their legal liability in the event that the data fell into the wrong hands, … Read more...IBM hopes open source will open healthcare IT silosThough the ability to collaborate and share information is a critical component of modern IT infrastructures, it is often lacking in healthcare environments, where siloed information is the frustrating norm. Unfortunately, the information is housed on proprietary computing architectures that can't always be accessed by different platforms. So IBM said last week it is open sourcing technology to the Eclipse Foundation's Open Healthcare Framework project in an effort to bridge the … Read more... |
