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With TEFCA Looming, HIE Leaders Discuss Changing Business Models

09.4.2018

'Interoperability moves at the speed of trust. That is the advantage we bring.' Featured April 9, 2018 | healthcare-informatics.com | David Raths, Healthcare Informatics Regional health information exchanges are not an endangered species. That was the message from a panel of HIE leaders at the 2018 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit in Baltimore last week. Panel moderator Carol Robinson, a principal at Portland, Ore.-based consulting firm CedarBridge Group LLC and former State Health IT coordinator in Oregon, asked the leaders for their impressions of the “elephant in the room” — the potential impact of the draft TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) proposal, as well as a host of other topics. Michael Matthews, who serves as both chief strategy officer for CedarBridge and president and board chair of The Sequoia Project, said...

TEFCA

Health Data Exchange, Interoperability Major HIMSS18 Focal Points

27.2.2018

Events, Interoperability

The HIMSS18 Conference and Exhibition is set to help healthcare professionals tackle serious challenges related to health data exchange and interoperability Featured February 27, 2018 | EHRintelligence.com | Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence With 40,000 attendees set to descend on Las Vegas, the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition will bring together the nation’s leading healthcare and health IT minds to tackle the nation’s top challenges, two of which are health data exchange and interoperability. The event taking place between March 5 and March 9 at the Venetian, Palazzo, and Sands Expo offers numerous opportunities for healthcare professionals to learn about and explore real-world solutions to enabling the efficient and robust sharing of health information between providers, patients, and other stakeholders. Here is a breakdown of some of the...

HIMSS

Michigan Medicine to Receive $2.5M for Enhancing Electronic Health Data Integrity

16.1.2018

Shared Services

Featured January 16, 2018 | Michigan Medicine Headlines Michigan Medicine will receive approximately $2.5 million for completing a statewide incentive program to improve patient safety, enhance data integrity and reduce workflow. The program, known as Common Key Service (CKS), provides a consistent and reliable way to match patients with their electronic health data across multiple health care settings by assigning a unique identifier for every patient in the state of Michigan. “If you are on vacation, you can access your bank account fairly easily from any computer. However, if you are on vacation and need to go to the hospital, it’s much more difficult to access your health record,” said Myron Hepner, senior director for Health Information Technology & Services. “Health systems use different computer systems and nomenclature which significantly...

CKS Common Key Service Patient Matching

Oakland Physician Network Services Joins Growing Statewide Health Information Network

15.11.2017

Partners

Provider organization becomes trusted, qualified data sharing organization with Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services EAST LANSING, Mich., Nov. 15, 2017 — The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) is pleased to announce that Oakland Physician Network Services (OPNS) has been approved as Michigan’s 13th health information exchange qualified organization. Being a qualified organization means that OPNS can now share patient care information directly through the statewide health information network with other healthcare organizations. “Every new organization joining the statewide network makes it stronger,” said Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of MiHIN. “This means more of Michigan’s doctors will be able to share patient information through the statewide network, which in turn means fewer burdens on patients and doctors to coordinate care.” Each of the 400-plus doctors supported by OPNS will...

Oakland Physician Network Services OPNS

WMU to host conference on health IT innovation and cybersecurity

10.10.2017

Events, Health Innovation, Health IT

Featured October 10, 2017 | wmich.edu KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Government, industry and academic leaders in health information technology and cybersecurity will headline a conference focused on "Exploring Health IT Innovation and Cybersecurity in the Digital Era" at Western Michigan University Thursday and Friday, Nov. 2-3. The conference will cover everything from the basics all the way up to the most complicated points in cybersecurity and IT development such as medical device security and hacking vulnerabilities in the healthcare industry. If you attend, it will be expected that you have a sound knowledge of IoT but you're not expected to understand all of the topics covered. At a minimum, it might prompt you to reach out to an agency like Five Nines and see how you can outsource your...

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