05-11-16 by Richard Taylor, Director of Business Development for eTransX Inc. Recently, the Advanced Health Model workgroup of the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee issued their initial findings and recommendations*. This workgroup, chaired by Paul Tang, MD, the chief innovation and technology officer at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is charged with finding…
Now that Electronic Medical Records have become the norm, many facilities are looking to leverage these systems to provide more value. Orders/Results exchange with Labs, automated data sharing between practices, centralized storage, and patient record consolidation are typically the first steps. However, IT Directors may quickly find that these projects are not as simple as…
The CMS and Healthcare Transformation Task Force recently announced the rapid acceleration of value-based health care: A group of the nation’s largest healthcare systems and payers, together with purchaser and patient stakeholders, have announced the creation of a new private-sector alliance dedicated to accelerating the shift to value-based business and clinical models in the U.S….
There are many different models of Health Information Exchanges. Some successfully share data between systems, and may provide valuable services on top of just data warehousing and distribution. However, almost all still struggle to make participation in their programs worthwhile to a significant portion of their region. The most widespread cause of HIE failure is…