Colorado HIE bets on FHIR to speed up data exchange
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization plans to implement the FHIR standard to improve data exchange between providers, the group recently announced at Denver’s Prime Health Innovation...
View ArticleDespite controversies, Paul Ryan names Patrick Soon-Shiong to health IT...
Billionaire biotech mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong will join the Health IT Advisory Committee, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, told Politico.Calls to Ryan’s office were not...
View ArticleHealth IT Now to Tom Price: Limit ONC's 'overstep and mission creep'
Industry coalition Health IT Now on Wednesday called on Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to focus on interoperability, kill information blocking, and reduce both healthcare costs and the...
View ArticleCIO Spotlight: Top health IT initiatives in 2017
Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and...
View ArticlePromise of precision medicine depends on overcoming big obstacles
Paul Cerrato says he first started researching precision medicine almost 30 years ago."Back then it wasn't called precision medicine, but when I was in graduate school I did my final master's thesis on...
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The Role of APIs to enable Healthcare interoperability
Sponsor: Red HatPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: InteroperabilityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleCoast Guard next to pick Cerner? Vendor is already prepping its EHR for the...
Now that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, revealed that VA has officially opted to replace its VistA EHR with one from Cerner, the overarching question: Is Cerner now a shoo-in for the...
View ArticlePew tells Congress to reject Trump's budget cuts to ONC
Another group joined the battle for the budget of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Thursday morning.Pew Charitable Trust manager of health information technology Ben Moscovitch...
View ArticleWill Cerner rollout at VA advance interoperability? Maybe
When U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin, MD, made the decision to transition the VA away from its self-developed VistA electronic health record system and onto the same one being...
View ArticleNQF maps out measures for interoperability
The National Quality Forum moved closer to finalizing a framework for measuring interoperability. NQF said the framework will help identify in the nation’s progress to enable widespread health data...
View ArticleLaboratory IT systems grapple with genetic testing surge
BOSTON – Precision medicine holds big promise, but it's also posing big challenges for hospital labs trying to manage a huge increase in requests for genetic tests.At the HIMSS Precision Medicine...
View ArticleThe Interoperability Imperative: Value-based Care Depends on Health...
Author: IntelSponsor: IntelPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: Health Information Exchange (HIE)InteroperabilityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleVA Secretary: Cerner tasked with EHR, won't scrap rest of VistA
In his first Capitol Hill appearance since the VA announced it would replace its electronic health record with a Cerner system, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, shed...
View ArticlePrecision medicine demands ‘evolutionary leaps of interoperability’
John Halamka, MD, was just the second human being to be sequenced in the landmark Personal Genome Project in 2008, one of the initial group of volunteers known as the PGP-10.Back then, it cost about...
View ArticlePrecision medicine: Hype today but the promise is even bigger than we think
Precision medicine is more hype than reality right now — but, at the same time, the incredible potential it holds for the future is even greater than all the buzz teases today.That’s what I came away...
View ArticleHealthix HIE links with Mount Sinai, Northwell exchanges to boost population...
Healthix, a wide-spanning health information exchange in New York State, has connected with the private HIEs run by Long Island's Northwell Health and the Manhattan-based Mount Sinai Health...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare ACO partnership gives Aledade a major boost
Aledade is joining forces with UnitedHealthcare, marking its first accountable care program for Medicare Advantage plan members – more than 15,000 of whom could participate in the new...
View ArticleMemorial, Orange Care ink population health pact using Epic Healthy Planet
Memorial Healthcare and Orange Care Group revealed a new technology partnership Friday to connect the hospital system with Orange’s accountable care organization and independent physician association...
View ArticleSMS: The digital health tool of the century
Halifax Health CIO Tom Stafford doesn’t want nurses or doctors even looking at computers when a patient is in the room.“Patients want to see them providing comfort and giving them control back,”...
View ArticleAccenture, Microsoft building blockchain ID prototype for healthcare, others
Accenture and Microsoft have created a prototype based on blockchain technology with the aim of creating a digital identity for 1.1 billion people around the world who don’t have a formal ID.According...
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