primary connections
Successful health information exchange takes a lot of planning, organization, and connections. Luckily for physicians, a new guide was recently published online by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to help primary care providers connect and securely exchange health information.
Regional Health eDecisions: A Guide to Connecting Health Information Exchange in Primary Care, written by MEDITECH Physician Consultant Brian Yeaman, MD, Norman Physician Hospital Organization (Norman, OK), and a team of three Oklahoma physicians, provides a framework to help primary care practices connect to regional health information exchanges. It also offers tips on how to engage staff buy-in and address technical issues.
“We’ve worked on this for four years and I am pretty pleased with the final product. I think our guide on HIE and CDS implementation has a lot of value for most of the healthcare market still in early stages of HIE or in a contemplative stage,” says Dr. Yeaman.
The 50-page guide can be accessed from the AHRQ website.
Congratulations to Dr. Yeaman and his colleagues for a job well done!
Want to know what MEDITECH is doing to participate in HIEs? Read this recent article from John D. Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), and Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee. Halamka shares his impressions on our recent healthcare information exchange kickoff meeting, and what he thinks is the right approach for vendors to take in supporting HIEs.