Pennsylvania eHealth Collaborative launches grant program that encourages doctors to use secure emails instead of paper and fax to share patient information.
Tag: Health Information Exchange
New York Digital Health Accelerator opens to packed house
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 […]
New health accelerator provides entrepreneurs access to NY hospitals and HIE data
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 […]
How allowing emergency rooms to share health data saved Memphis over $1m/year, interview with Mark Frisse MD
[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 […]
How allowing emergency rooms to share health data saved Memphis over $1m/year, interview with Mark Frisse MD
[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 […]
