What do the Best Health Information Exchange Platforms Have in Common?
Health information exchanges (HIEs), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have come a long way in allowing medical facilities to share valuable information between the physicians, radiologists and other specialists that work hard to provide the best quality of care possible to their patients. First off, the information must be capable of being shared securely […]
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 […]
Surprise: Hospital Data Loss Underserved, Few Have HIE
Don’t Get Caught up in Hospital Data Loss A study from Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation reveals that only 30 percent of hospitals in the U.S. are part of a health information exchange (HIE). While there has been a slight increase in the number of healthcare providers involved in HIE participation since […]
Best Health Information Exchange: Where do You Fit in?
By now everyone involved with healthcare has heard about or been touched in some way by health information exchange (HIE). By the middle of 2013, about half of all physicians in the U.S. were actively using an electronic health records system. The question is, are they using the best health information exchange available? The best […]
Vendor Neutral Archiving: Learning from a Colorado Success Story
The exchange of information through the electronic health records (EHR) process doesn’t have to be a nightmare. A Colorado critical access hospital proved that recently when it connected with its EHR system to a health information exchange (HIE) called the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, or CORHIO. Estes Park Medical Center, the first of its […]
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 […]
Health Image Exchange: How Much Does Repeated Imaging Cost Your Hospital?
If you’ve been putting off involvement in a health image exchange (HIE), consider a recent study that shows how using an HIE can drastically cut back on the number of imaging tests that have be redone. Obviously, imaging tests are expensive. Unfortunately, due to constraints in how images are shared, patients often are burdened with […]
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 […]
What to do First For Health Image Exchange
Most IT administrators in the healthcare industry aren’t as familiar with health image exchange as they are with health information exchange (HIE). However, when it comes to sharing and storing radiological images, health image exchange should be on the list of technologies to embrace. The health image exchange should be part of the HIE. Practices […]