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VA preparing to re-start health data exchange with DoD
The Department of Veterans Affairs may have already made a decision to restart health data exchange with the Department of Defense, slightly more than a week after cutting off access to Military... Read more...
CSC: More hospitals are promoting 'integrated' EHRs in their communities
Meaningful use of EHRs undoubtedly will require interoperability of electronic health information between care settings, as well as coordination of care. With physician practices largely "still on... Read more...
Rural Texas hospitals to create RHIO with shared EHR
One of the underlying principles of "meaningful use" of EHRs--and a key requirement for earning federal stimulus payments--is the ability to be interoperable with other organizations. To this end,... Read more...
Leading CIOs question timetable, specificity of meaningful use proposal
Uber-CIO Dr. John Halamka, of CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston, is known for his workaholic tendencies, mostly in the name of improving healthcare through information technology. After talking... Read more...
Social Security to join VA, DoD interoperability effort
The Social Security Administration will start sharing electronic health information with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs early next year to help expedite claims processing for... Read more...
ONC advances plans for incorporating consumer preferences into EHRs
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is looking at ways to incorporate patient choices about the sharing and use of their health information, and about advanced... Read more...
VA finishes interoperability phase of DoD record integration
The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished the interoperability portion of its massive, three-stage effort with the Department of Defense to create a single, lifelong EHR for service members,... Read more...
Children's Hospital Boston creates interoperability via patient portal
Get ready for more alphabet soup. The latest acronym in health IT is PCHR, short for personally controlled health record. It's the brainchild of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program at... Read more...
Military Health System extends two EMR support contracts
The Military Health System has extended two key contracts to support its Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) system, which the Pentagon calls the world's largest and most... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Semantic interoperability
Attention EMR developers and integrators: Interoperability comes in three flavors. There's technical interoperability, computable semantic interoperability and process interoperability. The semantic... Read more...
