HIEs offer to lighten the meaningful use load
Government Health IT’s Mary Mosquera reporting September 18, 2009 on AHRQ’s Annual Conference that “Health information exchanges (HIE) could help ease the burden of healthcare providers by carrying out some the reporting and technical requirements for ‘meaningful use’ of health IT, according to executives of several state exchanges.” Mosquera quotes Gina Perez, executive director of the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN); and Marc Overhage, senior scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and chief executive officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
Policy Committee Holds Hearing on Health IT Privacy, Security
iHealthBeat does a roundup story on the HIT Policy Committee meeting held September 18, 2009 with articles from Healthcare IT News and Modern Healthcare.
Here’s e-Healthcare Marketing blog’s post connecting to the Sept 18, 2009 HIT Policy Committee testimony captured in documents from ONC site.
Policy Committee: Privacy experts face off over patient control, policy safeguards
Mary Mosquera of Government Health IT reported further September 18, 2009, on privacy discussion and viewpoints expressed by Deborah Peel, founder and chair of the Patients Privacy Rights group, and Deven McGraw, director of health privacy at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Peel focused on the need for specific patient consent for each health information request transaction, while Degraw focused on the need for rules guiding the transfer of personal health information from one site to another. The article points out their common ground as well.
Standards Panel OKs Guidance on Privacy, Security of EHRs
iHealth Beat does a story roundup of articles from HIT StandardsCommittee held September 15, 2009 with articles from HealthData Management, Modern Healthcare, Government Health IT, Healthcare IT News, and AHA News.
Here’s e-Healthcare Marketing blog’s roundup of articles on the Sept 15, 2009 HIT Standards Panel, which adds a summary of an article by John Halamka, to the mix of some of the articles above.
Plus e-Healthcare Marketing link to the presentations and updates of Standards Committee.
