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How Health Informatics, HIE Can Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change

December 18, 2023 - Siloed data across the healthcare industry presents challenges for health information exchange (HIE). However, when a crisis strikes, the health informatics community can optimize data infrastructure to drive interoperability, according to Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, a research scientist at the Center for Biomedical Informatics of the Regenstrief Institute. Listen to the full podcast to...

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Poor Interoperability Limited Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

by Hannah Nelson

According to a study published in Health Affairs, poor immunization data interoperability hampered primary care providers’ COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Researchers analyzed data from the...

Maryland HIE Expands Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project

by Hannah Nelson

CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), has expanded its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project to all interested providers and Managed Care Organizations...

KLAS: Infection Control Health IT Streamlines Regulatory Reporting

by Hannah Nelson

Healthcare organizations are looking to infection control health IT with strong technical support to help drive meaningful outcomes and optimize regulatory reporting, according to a KLAS report. All...

COVID-19 Sparks Health IT Market Growth in Telehealth EHR Integrations

by Hannah Nelson

The health IT market experienced a rapid increase in telehealth EHR integrations following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, according to a study published in AJMC. Researchers...

CHIME Awards TrueCare CIO Collaboration Award for Health IT Partnership

by Hannah Nelson

The College of Information Management Executives (CHIME) has honored Tracy Elmer, chief innovation officer of TrueCare, and health IT vendor Artera, with the 2022 CHIME Collaboration Award for their...

Pew Focuses Health IT Efforts on Public Health Data Sharing

by Hannah Nelson

Pew Charitable Trusts is working to improve health IT infrastructure for data sharing between healthcare providers and state public health agencies. “As COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, the...

Clinician Burnout Reaches New High During COVID-19 After 6-Year Decline

by Hannah Nelson

The clinician burnout rate among US physicians spiked drastically during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic after six years of decline, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic...

Regenstrief Secures CDC Grant for Long COVID-19 Research Using HIE Data

by Hannah Nelson

Research scientists from Regenstrief Institute have received a CDC grant to detect trends linked to lingering symptoms of COVID-19, known as long COVID-19, using health information exchange (HIE)...

How eCR Can Cut Clinician Burden, Advance Public Health Surveillance

by Hannah Nelson

The implementation of electronic case reporting (eCR) at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has helped improve data accuracy for public health surveillance while cutting clinician burden,...

ONC Mulls Health Information Exchange Data for Patient-Centered Research

by Sarai Rodriguez

ONC has announced a new project to leverage health information exchange (HIE) data to support COVID-19 focused patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) by implementing new data standards and...

How Public Health Data Reporting Automation Supports Patient-Centered Care

by Hannah Nelson

When done manually, public health data reporting can take up a significant chunk of time. Dialysis clinics in a federal COVID-19 vaccine program have experienced that first-hand. Once vaccines arrive at the clinics, providers administer...

How APIs Streamlined COVID-19 Case Reporting, Enhanced Data Quality

by Sarai Rodriguez

The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) overall enhanced the COVID-19 case reporting process, once integrated APIs improved the data quality of COVID-19 case and death numbers and...

STAR HIE Program Supports Public Health Agencies Throughout COVID-19

by Sarai Rodriguez

The Strengthening the Technical Advancement & Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange Program (The STAR HIE Program) has made considerable improvements in its effort to support...

Cerner EHR Integration Boosts Access to COVID-19 Therapeutics

by Hannah Nelson

The White House announced last week that it has asked health IT vendors, including Cerner, for their support in providing COVID therapeutics within the EHR.  Incorporating this information would...

Epic Systems Streamlines COVID-19 Treatment Access

by Sarai Rodriguez

Epic Systems is working to make COVID-19 antiviral treatments easier for patients and providers to locate through its EHR, building on an initiative by the Biden administration to expand COVID-19...

Clinical Decision Support Associated with Improved Patient Outcomes

by Sarai Rodriguez

Clinical decision support tools were associated with better patient outcomes as the tools assisted clinicians in providing better care with lower mortality rates for emergency departments with...

Grants Slot COVID-19 Relief Funds for Community Health Data Sharing

by Sarai Rodriguez

Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) has awarded organizations in Nebraska, New Mexico, Georgia, Utah, and Connecticut funding to support community partnerships with the state or local...

Sequoia Project Publishes Public Health Emergency Preparedness Guide

by Hannah Nelson

The Sequoia Project’s Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup (EPIW) has published a free whitepaper that outlines public health recommendations based on lessons learned from COVID-19...

HEALTHeLINK HIE Sees Increase in Population Health Data Sharing

by Hannah Nelson

HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, worked on a total of 83 different projects in 2021 focused on improving data sharing for use cases such as population health...

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