This article from the iHealthBeat website provides some background on the use of Direct messaging – who uses it, when they use it, the benefits of using it, and some of the impediments to using it. The article references a post by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society that contains an additional […]
This article from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) blog is the second of a three-part posting concerning the establishment of an HIE, particularly for patients who are deemed vulnerable due to lack of regular access to the healthcare delivery system and the presence of one or more chronic diseases. […]
This article from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) blog is the first of a three-part posting concerning the establishment of an HIE, particularly for patients who are deemed vulnerable due to lack of regular access to the healthcare delivery system and the presence of one or more chronic diseases. […]
This article from the EMR & HIPPA website discusses the issue of interoperability – its causes and potential benefits if more fully realized. It specifically calls out a promising solution, the uses of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR and pronounced fire). FHIR is a proposed standard from the Health […]
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are a crucial piece of the solution to the healthcare interoperability problem – the lack of data sharing among healthcare information systems. This article from HealthIT.gov, the website from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is an excellent to introduction to […]