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New York Digital Health Accelerator opens to packed house

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
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The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) held their coming out party on May 10th in NYC, hosting a packed house at TimesCenter, not to mention hundreds of interested onlookers via live streaming video. I had the opportunity to interview David Whitlinger, Director of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), about the program’s origin and how it will nurture the companies it selects. “… now you can have an entrepreneur who has a great idea for a software application, but [Read more]

New health accelerator provides entrepreneurs access to NY hospitals and HIE data

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
19 days ago by
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The New York City Investment Partners (@NYCIF) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (@NYeHealth) announced the launch of the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) for early- and growth-stage digital health companies developing technologies for care coordination, patient engagement, analytics and message alerts for healthcare providers. The NYDHA is definitely taking a unique approach to the accelerator model, emphasizing its extensive network of providers across the State of New York and the role of the state health information exchange (HIE), the Statewide Health [Read more]

How allowing emergency rooms to share health data saved Memphis over $1m/year, interview with Mark Frisse MD

Feb 14, 2012 by
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[Ed. This is the second of a two part series. Check out part one here] In October, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a study by led by Mark Frisse, MD demonstrating significant cost savings when emergency departments (ED) have access to patients’ data via health information exchange (HIE). The study showed a total net savings after costs over $1.07 million over a 13 month period and was associated with a decrease in hospital admissions and [Read more]

How allowing emergency rooms to share health data saved Memphis over $1m/year, interview with Mark Frisse MD

Feb 13, 2012 by
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[Ed. This is the first of a two part series] In October, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a study by led by Mark Frisse, MD demonstrating significant cost savings when emergency departments (ED) have access to patients’ data via health information exchange (HIE). The study showed a total net savings after costs over $1.07 million over a 13 month period and was associated with a decrease in hospital admissions and statistically significant decreases in head [Read more]

HealthBridge Health Information Exchange deployed for greater Cincinnati area

Nov 22, 2011 by
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While electronic medical records have many benefits, they are often limited by the fact that different EMR’s do not communicate with each other. Even with the consolidation of healthcare in many areas within a few large systems, if a patient goes between an Epic-system and an Allscripts-system, they are still out of luck. That, however, is set to change thanks in part to provisions in HITECH and promotion of health information exchanges. In the Cincinnati area, two hospitals that are [Read more]

ONC launches campaign to educate public on Health Information Exchanges

Nov 07, 2011 by
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ONC will conduct a national campaign educating the public about the importance of privacy and security in the electronic exchange of their personal info

Baylor Healthcare System launches enterprise Health Information Exchange

Oct 31, 2011 by
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Baylor Healthcare System is deploying a Health Information Exchange (HIE) for caregivers to use based on AT&T’s Healthcare Community Online portal.

Why not use the internet to transmit health information? The transformative potential of NHIN Direct

May 14, 2010 by
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David Kibbe, MD recently penned a  detailed post on the basics of the NHIN Direct project titled “Getting to the Health Internet” . It is great reading and I highly recommend it. Below are a few of the points I found the most interesting.

NHIN Direct is a project within the federal Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) to develop protocols for streamlined and secure internet communication among physicians and hospitals.  Think of it like email for health records. Physicians should be interested in NHIN Direct because it has the the potential to open up electronic health records to new kinds of innovation.