Recently added articles from Health Data Management:
Testing the Health Records Bank Model.(Information Exchange)
Dec 01, 2009 ... The State of Washington has a small number of emerging health information exchanges, but the government also has invested in three pilot projects to implement health records banks. Three grants of about $600,000 each from the Washington State Health Care Authority helped start ...
Beware of Tight 5010 Deadline.(Washington Report)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2009 ... The federal deadline for adopting the HIPAA 5010 financial and administrative transaction sets is Jan. 1, 2012. That might seem like a long time away, but in reality it's a tight deadline, says Robert Tennant, senior policy advisor for the Medical Group Management Association in Englewood, ...
Future Tense, or Tense Future?(Editor's Note)
Dec 01, 2009 ... Byline: Gary Baldwin, Editorial Director In grammar school, I was completely mesmerized by Charles Dickens' famous opening lines of ambivalence in A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." On the surface contradictory, the sentiment he ...
Are HIEs the Answer? Alternatives to regional health information exchanges are emerging.(Information Exchange)
Dec 01, 2009 ... Byline: Joseph Goedert The numbers are daunting. Nearly two decades after the advent of community health information networks and more than five years after the Bush Administration starting pushing for electronic health records and health information exchanges, only 28 states ...
The Future of Digital Health; Six experts offer their visions.(Cover Story)
Dec 01, 2009 ... Byline: Gary Baldwin This article is the last in a six-part series examining what industry pioneers have accomplished with electronic health records. In this installment, Editorial Director Gary Baldwin reconnected with sources from the series and with other experts to raise one ...