Government & Policy
Catholic Health Initiatives is partnering with Orion Health to build an enterprise-wide HIE that will enable physicians and clinicians to access patient records across its 100 facilities in 19 states. Once connected, CHI plans to link to statewide HIEs in states where its 76 hospitals are located.
Questions being posed at the Government Health IT Conference in Washington this week relate to standards, EHRs, HIE, and distributed queries -- all geared toward public and population health.
The VA and DoD are setting a model the rest of the country will want to follow with the joint iEHR. Traficant explains the SOA piece of iEHR, and the brilliance of bringing in the open source community.
Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner says health reform enables accountable care organizations, among other things, to bridge public and private health.
If it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the government would not have had the framework and authority to help support the movement toward accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Thursday keynote.
In the final episode of his six-part series on bolstering public health with big data, Roger Foster looks toward big data's promise of preventing health conditions, and outlines some of the challenges, notably the need for data scientists.
David Collins of HIMSS on the theme of this year's show, how the federal health IT landscape has changed since last year, and the hot topics about which attendees will learn.
Eric Swanson, who spearheads Michigan's Center for Shared Solutions and Technology Partnerships, explains the state's MiCloud initiative, benefits, challenges, and the entrepreneurial spirit fueling the transition.
The Black Book report published on Thursday estimates that spending on health IT will triple, and quickly.
Among the states deploying cloud computing infrastructures for a variety of agencies, Delaware and Michigan are aiming to bring public health entities into the fold.