Only 18% of skilled nursing facilities have taken the next step to integrate their electronic health records with a regional or state health information exchange.
Eldermark, Avanti Senior Living prepare to launch HIE system
Feb 18, 2015
Eldermark, a software solutions company, and Avanti Senior LIving are about to launch an electronic records system to be shared through a healthcare information exchange.
Nursing homes demonstrate health information exchange, Minnesota style
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 01, 2014
It pains me to say it, but Minnesota’s done it again.
Hospital, nursing home information sharing to become ‘routine,’ government agencies say
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 09, 2013
As sharing of electronic health information becomes standard across all care settings, using technology may become a prerequisite for providers to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, according...
MDI Achieve client awarded data grant
Mar 05, 2013
Benedictine Health System has been awarded an e-Health Connectivity Grant from the Minnesota Department of Health, MDI Achieve announced. This grant will be used to enable data exchange between BHS Participating...
Vendor blog to address health information issues
Apr 25, 2012
ICA will launch a HIT Me Blog. The blog that will address issues facing healthcare, health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE). Initial blogs include discussions on vendor...
Information technology interoperability: How to get it right in LTPAC
By
Robert C. Davis
Oct 14, 2011
To enhance facility communications with other providers and vendors while improving patient care, one of the most important information technology considerations must be interoperability. There are varying...
Healthcare IT could further strain Medicaid budgets, state directors say
Mar 08, 2010
Many state Medicaid directors worry that implementing healthcare information exchanges (HIE) will sap money from already diminishing Medicaid funds, according to speakers at the recent Health Information...