Social media is changing the nature of healthcare interaction, and health organizations that ignore this virtual environment may be missing opportunities to engage consumers, according to a new report by the Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) U.S.
The increasing utilization of EHRs and health information exchange (HIE) that has been spurred by an unprecedented level of government funding for health IT could represent an untapped market for both job creation and market savings, according to the eHealth Initiative (eHI).
Health information exchanges (HIEs) promise to improve patient care and trim costs by providing access to patient data across organizations ... if they can remain sustainable. Yet, integrating a key component of patient data—images—into the HIE has proven to be problematic and plagued by technical and privacy hurdles.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the eHealth Initiative (eHI) have joined forces to help healthcare CIOs make sound decisions as they move toward achieving health information exchange (HIE).
Very few health information exchanges (HIEs) become sustainable in one year, according to Jason Goldwater, VP of research and programs at eHealth Initiative (eHI). Speaking at a webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based organization, Goldwater shared some key findings from its latest report, “2011 Report on Health Information Exchange: Sustainable HIE in a Changing Landscape.”
Although 2010 saw some consolidation among health information exchanges (HIEs), this has been a year of expansion for HIE in general, according to the 2011 eHealth Initiative’s annual survey. The annual survey identified 255 active HIEs across the nation and its territories. Of those, 196 responded to the 2011 survey, said Genevieve Morris
, eHealth Initiative’s manager of research and programs for HIEs, during a web presentation last week.
The number of initiatives in the health information exchange (HIE) market has grown by 9 percent from 234 in 2010 to 255 in 2011despite consolidation in the field, according to key findings from an eHealth Initiative report released last week.
