The National Health Information Network (NHIN), which was the previous ONC head’s (Kolodner) top priority, or at least seemed that way is a concept that has its advocates and detractors. To date, we have been more of a detractor as the original NHIN was a very heavy, top down approach by the federal government to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NHIN’
Making Sense of the NHIN
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HIE, RHIO, tagged NHIN, NHIN Direct on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Consumer Consent and HIEs
Posted in consumer health, HIE, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged HHS, NHIN, ONC on March 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
One of the thornier issues regarding the establishment of public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is how to manage consumer consent of personal health information (PHI) sharing. Today, there is no single standard approach across the US. Some states have an opt-in process, others an opt-out. Granularity of data shared, use cases for data sharing, etc. [...]
Blumenthal Beats HITECH Drum
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged Blumenthal, Health Internet, HHS, HITECH Act, NHIN on November 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, David Blumenthal published a very thoughtful post on the HITECH Act as a foundation for information exchange in which he reflected on his own personal experience as a doctor. That experience included the often frustrating realization that he could not obtain a complete longitudinal record of his patients (customers) due to either (or both) [...]
CONNECT: The Feds Answer to Health Info Exchange
Posted in EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Privacy, standards, tagged Exchanges, HHS, NHIN, ONC on July 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The feds are beating the CONNECT drum. This week, ONC sponsored a two-day event in DC to begin educating the market as to what CONNECT is and how it may be leveraged to support information exchange. At least that is the impression one had in signing up for this event. In actuality, the event was [...]
More on Feds’ Privacy Framework for Consumer Health Records
Posted in PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged HHS, NHIN, Sec. Leavitt on December 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The online publication, NextGov has a good article that further outlines the new privacy framework that Sec. Leavitt announced on Monday during the NHIN event being held in DC. Article is the best one I have seen yet on the subject (all the HIT rags have been pretty abysmal covering this announcement). Reflecting back on [...]
Why HIEs Succeed and RHIOs Languish
Posted in consumer health, tagged healthcare policy, HIE, NHIN, RHIO, supply chain on August 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Back at the beginning of the year, I did a Top Ten Predictions post where one of the predictions was the continued struggles of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and the steady rise of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Since much of the ballyhooed National Health Information Network (NHIN) is built upon the premise of RHIOs [...]
Naturally, Govt. Looks to Google and Microsoft
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, Google, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, policy, RHIO, Security, tagged Dossia, Google Health, Harris, Microsoft HealthVault, NHIN, RHIO on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a poor track record to date getting Regional Health Information Organizations off the ground, the Office of the Coordinator of Health Information Technology within HHS is now looking to expand the National Health Information Network (NHIN) to exchange data with both Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault. But first the Feds look to be scaling [...]
Taking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, RHIO, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Dossia, EMR, Epic, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NHIN, PHR, RHIO on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing 100,000+ users of the Epic-based patient portal (a tethered PHR) called MyChart to participate in this trial. Stated purpose is to test [...]
Markle Addresses Authentication for Health Records
Posted in consumer health, EMR, health portals, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged authentication, Connecting for Health, EMR, Markle, NHIN, PHR on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Late last week, the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health initiative released its latest report: Consumer Authentication for Networked Personal Health Information. As with previous reports from Connecting for Health, this report is heavy on policy and much of it can be quickly skimmed, after all, it is some 37 pages in length. But within those [...]
Predictions 2008: Telehealth Jumps, RHIOs Fade, Legislation Stalls & PHRs Get the Press
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, HIT, Microsoft, P4P, PHR, RHIO, SaaS, standards, telehealth, tagged Dossia, GE, Google, HIE, Microsoft, NHIN, Philips, PHRs, RHIO, Siemens, telehealth on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A common practice in the analyst community is to take a look back at what has occurred and project forward as to what we might see in the coming year. I won’t spend anytime on what has occurred as you can always drift back to previous posts. Following are the Top Ten predictions for 2008. [...]
