Tag Archives: Hospital HIE

Hospital-Backed HIE On The Rocks

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Anne Zieger

In an all-too-familiar tale of conflict, turf wars and financial doubts, a three-year effort to bring some of the Chicago area’s largest hospitals into an HIE seems on the verge of collapse. The proposed HIE is backed by the Metropolitan … Continue reading →

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Big EMR Problems To Tackle in 2012

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury 2011 EMR assumptions, not to praise them. Here’s some of the critical problems we didn’t kick this year: * Just about everything we’d like to see happen with EMRs … Continue reading →

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An EMR Adoption Rant, Or, What About The 99%?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

This week, I caught a news update noting that Evansville, IN-based Deaconess Health System had just gotten the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 EMR adoption award. Deaconess, which chose Epic for its rollout, made the trip from paper-based to digital care in … Continue reading →

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An Important Shift, Most Hospitals Now Favor HIEs, Whatever Those Are

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

For quite some time — I’d estimate five years at least — health information exchanges were the dark horse of the health IT world.  A few successful ones emerged, but far more foundered, in many cases because hospitals involved couldn’t … Continue reading →

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