Best Health Information Exchange: Should Patients Have Control?
What You Should Offer for the Best Health Information Exchange Services In the healthcare industry, many professionals are reluctant to change. Take small doctor’s office across America as an example; you see many of them still using large file folders containing the medical history of patients. These are professionals who may not understand or embrace […]
HIE and Your Hospital Data: Do You Fit in One of These Three Models?
Getting a Better Position on HIE Health information exchange, or HIE, generally falls under three models: centralized, federated/decentralized, and a hybrid of all of them. Let’s take a look at what typifies each setup. Centralized Model The centralized model involves a single common data pool that includes payer, public and provider health data. This is […]
Best Health Information Exchange Starts With Simple Login
Get the Best Health Information Exchange for Your Facility Meaningful Use is something that’s been on the minds of radiologists and healthcare IT professionals for some time now. Stage 2 of Meaningful Use involves six new objectives, one of which involves sharing images. Unfortunately, many providers are having issues with this aspect of the regulation […]
Rural Hospitals: Small But Mighty With Best Health Information Exchange
It’s not written anywhere that because you are a small, rural, critical care hospital that you can only have access to subpar technology. However, due to resource hurdles, which include a lack of human resources as well as a lack of funding, you probably are paired up with technology that doesn’t quite fit the needs […]
Meaningful Use and the Best Health Information Exchange: Are There Risks?
As a member of the healthcare industry, you’ve seen plenty of news about Meaningful Use. You know that many professionals see the Meaningful Use deadlines as clashing with software best practices, and perhaps you’re one of those people. In fact, many hospitals are jumping into brand new EHR software far earlier than their best practices […]