By Nick Orser, Product Marketing Manager, Verato Twitter: @Verato_Software A fundamentally different approach to patient matching No matter what patient matching technology you use, and no matter what vendor it is from, it uses fundamentally the same approach to patient matching as every other technology. This is true whether you use the built-in master patient index (MPI) module in your EHR…

By Justin Campbell, VP Marketing, Galen Healthcare Solutions Twitter: @GalenHealthcare Twitter: @tjustincampbell The topic of patient identity and patient matching has been around as long as healthcare. And for good reason. Without it, interoperability is inoperable. But, for nearly two decades, Congress has refused to fund a patient identifier system. In general, lawmakers have explained their inaction as a reflection…

Carequality (@CarequalityNet) announced publication of the Carequality Interoperability Framework. The comprehensive Framework consists of multiple elements, including legal terms, policy requirements, technical specifications, and governance processes, which operationalize data sharing under the previously approved Principles of Trust. The Framework is now available for health information exchange networks, vendors, payers, and others across the healthcare ecosystem to adopt, providing a practical approach…

By Michelle Schneider, Senior Solutions Engineer, Iatric Systems Twitter: @IatricSystems Interoperability is one of those words that conjures up very different visuals for each of us. Paper cups attached by string, the WiFi router in your home, the towers and satellites that allow your text to be sent across the world in milliseconds, and the NASA space station, are all…

In a recently released report, the Federal Health Architecture's (FHA) Federal Health Information Model (FHIM) was reviewed by The Open Group Healthcare Forum, a forum of The Open Group - a global consortium of more than 450 organizations focused on achieving business objectives through IT standards. The Open Group's private and public sector global Healthcare and Enterprise Architecture experts commended…

Leading healthcare IT association to launch $1 million challenge for innovative solution to patient matching, rallies industry-wide support The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the healthcare industry's leading professional organization for chief information officers and senior IT executives, is calling on innovators throughout the U.S. and around the world to participate in the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge.…

By Robert Rowley, MD, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Flow Health Twitter: @RRowleyMD Health information exchange (the verb) has been the goal of health IT, now that we have moved into the “post-EHR adoption” era of healthcare. Published and private surveys have shown that about 80% of physician practices have implemented an Electronic Health Record (EHR), and of those,…

By Lee Barrett - Some say there’s nothing like a little controversy to spark interest in your organization. Others say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Call me old fashioned, but I contend, in healthcare, being featured on the Office for Civil Rights’ Wall of Shame or plastered on a news headline about a breach of personal health information…

By Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., and Erica Galvez/Interoperability and Exchange Portfolio Manager, ONC On October 15, 2014 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) convenes the first joint meeting of the Health Information Technology Policy and Standards Committees. We intend to spend the day discussing interoperability in the health information ecosystem. Committee members will…