Physician practices challenged the organization to electronically deliver clinical results directly into its soon-to-be-installed EMR system. This move was actually challenged and brought about by the physicians who were already using electronic records. The system is not totally complete, but...
Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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As the article states the use of the common standard of HL7 is going to be the solution, so some standards really work well and HL7 has been around for quite a while now and is coming in to focus. Some existing hospitals with Eclipsys might be in a better position to help subsidize physicians and...
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Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than likely be seeing a few of their patients. This process is being done through a 3rd party offering HL7 and other transformations such as text/HL7. This is taking 2 different medical...
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More grant information can be found here. California working towards standardizing the information between electronic records and the HL7 format for labs. HL7 standards have the potential of following the same procedure and process to import lab results to a medical records. If all...
If you are a non profit hospital or healthcare association, well worth looking at as this can help pave the way to interoperability with electronic medical records. BD The California Healthcare Foundation in Oakland will offer grants to providers in the state to implement the new EHR-Lab Interoperability...
A couple weeks ago I had a couple posts referencing the partner ship with Anthem Blue Cross with utilizing their data bases for such a project as well...The new FDA white paper, titled "The Sentinel Initiative -- A National Strategy for Monitoring Medical Product Safety," ... totally amazing...
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