Over the past year, I’ve heard the frequent comment that banks successfully deployed interoperability over 10 years ago, but the healthcare industry lags far behind. Often the comment is followed up with a statement that we can go to any bank and they can instantly access our financial information, but each physician I go to [...]

John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Business School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (plus a myriad of other titles) and author of the popular Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, lead an interesting session on HIE and the ARRA/HITECH stimulus. There is about $2 billion available for HIE in the stimulus with much of the [...]

I don’t know if it’s the size of the conference hall, the constant shuttling back and forth to the hotels, or the length of the conference, but I am exhausted! I don’t mean this as a criticism of HIMSS at all, but more of a forewarning for any snippy posts that come up today.
This morning [...]

So for the AllScripts HIE, ditto everything I said for GE! The Allscripts GUI and flow is pretty much the same as GE, but a little prettier.
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I went to the Interoperability Showcase to see a demo of GE’s Health Information Exchange solution and a bit of Centricity. GE is using Sun/Seebeyond for their patient mapping logic, which is a great tool. They demonstrated how Continuity of Care Document (CCDs) can be pulled down from the HIE and the imported into Centricity. [...]