EHR PHR and Patient Portals

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Federal budget:your opportunity to act

Here is the link for the ACPONLINE CAPWIZ site. SV

ACPONLINE CAPWIZ

Here is the link for a sample letter for patients.

Letter

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:52:00 +0000

SureScripts and RxHub Merger= SureScriptsRxHub

It's not quite the connection of the Atlantic and Pacific railroads, but pretty close.
SureScripts was a formed by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA). RxHub was founded by the nation’s three largest PBMs – CVS Caremark Corporation, Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Local pharmacies will now share the same network as the mail-order houses. One certification should get the free-standing e-Prescribing and Electronic Health Record vendors access to almost everyone. Less cost for the vendors may mean less cost to deploy. SV

In 2008, the combined organization expects to transmit 100 million electronic prescription transactions and respond to more than 70 million requests by physicians confirming information about their patients’ drug coverages and medication histories. With appropriate patient consent, the combined organization will extend this information to clinicians caring for more than 200 million patients across the United States.

Easy, Efficient, Accurate, Safe and Secure
With this information more readily available, the process of prescribing medications is measurably improved by:

providing physicians with added knowledge of their patients;
enabling a more informed choice of therapy;
ensuring that the medicine intended by the physician is actually and accurately communicated to the pharmacy;
allowing patients to weigh important economic considerations within a range of appropriate clinical options before a prescription is written; and
adding convenience to the overall process.

Surescriptsrxhub.com

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:41:00 +0000

DEA Issues Proposed Regulations to Allow Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances

ePrescribing of controlled substances will further improve operations in doctors' offices. SV

JUN 27 -- DEA today published proposed regulations that would provide physicians and other authorized prescribers with the option of issuing electronic prescriptions for controlled substances. These regulations would also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these electronic prescriptions. The agency is seeking public comment on the proposed regulations. Any member of the public wishing to submit comments may do so by mail or electronically on or before September 25, 2008.

These regulations provide pharmacies, hospitals, and practitioners with the ability to use modern technology for controlled substance prescriptions while maintaining the closed system of controls on controlled substances dispensing; additionally, the proposed regulations would reduce paperwork for DEA registrants who prescribe or dispense controlled substances and have the potential to reduce prescription forgery.

US DOJ

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:27:00 +0000

Personal Health Records (PHR) privacy protections codified: Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information

The Markle Foundation has published the suggested rules of operation that should give greater protection to users of PHR type products. Google, Microsoft, among others, are on-board. SV

Connectingforhealth.org

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:51:00 +0000

Our Pen and Paper Doctors New York Times Editorial June 24 2008

I just read the editorial which refers to the June 18, 2008 New England Journal of Medicine article which surveyed 2,700 physicians. It notes that in countries with single payor systems, electronic health record use is almost universal. In those countries, the government foots the bill. All the financial benefits are then funneled back for re-investment etc. The major barriers noted here in the United States relate to the cost of acquisition, the cost of maintenance, the lack of standards and fear of early obsolescence among others.

Unfortunately, the editorial ends with the sentence, "It is time to drag private physicians out of the paper age".

There is no need to disbarage the concerns of physicians. The financial barriers are real and the financial benefits unfortunately mostly accrue to others. Physicians need not be "dragged", they just need the financial assistance to get started and a fair share of the benefits that will be generated. Once this is done, I believe that most physicians will do their fair share of pulling health care away from the Pen and Paper of the previous century.

Salvatore Volpe MD
Co-Chair of the Medical Society State of New York, Health Information Technology Committee

NY Times

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:16:00 +0000

The Ultimate Guide to Taking Control of Your Health Records

Here's a pretty good compilation of services and tools for laypersons and medical professionals related to electronic health records and personal health records. SV

Nursing Online Education Database NOEDb

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:09:00 +0000

AT&T, Covisint and Microsoft Partnership: Nationwide Health Information Exchange

This promises to bring information from disparate sources together.
Not mentioned, is possible collaboration with other organizations attempting to create a National Health Information Exchange. More details are welcome. SV

The new eHealth information exchange is a revolutionary approach designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of care while putting patients in control of their medical records. It allows consumers using Microsoft® HealthVault™, a software and service-based platform for storing and accessing personal health information, to share information with authorized physicians and health care providers connected to AT&T Healthcare Community Online.

The new eHealth information exchange, enabled by Covisint’s On-Demand Healthcare Platform and layered on AT&T’s patented eHealth solutions and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, shares information electronically and in a security-enhanced way across the continuum of care — from patient to provider communities such as HealthVault, health-information exchanges and insurers.

Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:34:00 +0000

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts To Integrate With Google Health

Congratulations to BCBSMA and GOOGLE!

Remember this is just claims data, but it does help supplement the information that can be collected by practices participating in the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative by providing data from hospitals and physicians not part of the Collaborative. SV

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) announced today a partnership with Google Health that will expand options for members who want to create their own Personal Health Record (PHR). BCBSMA is the first health insurance company to sign an agreement to integrate on the Google Health platform. After the integration is complete, BCBSMA members can import their claims data into their Google Health profile safely and securely. Google Health, a new product that launched in mid-May of this year, allows patients to store and organize their medical records online.

Once this sharing relationship is established, Google Health will give BCBSMA members the ability to:

Organize, store and manage their medical records and personal health information online in one secure location, including BCBSMA claims data;
Download medical records and prescription history from other connected providers, such as retail pharmacies, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), labs and doctors offices;
Share their medical information with providers and or third party services they may offer customized services;
Learn about important health issues and potential drug-to-drug interactions;
Search for a doctor or hospital online.

BCBSMA

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:10:00 +0000

Kaiser Permanente My Health Manager partners with Microsoft Healthvault

This will be a major test of interoperability capability. SV

OAKLAND, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. announced today that the two companies will pilot health data transfers between Kaiser Permanente's My Health Manager and the Microsoft HealthVault consumer health platform. Pairing two leaders in online health innovation, this pilot program is expected to unveil new strategies for expanding consumer access to online health information and management tools.

The pilot program will extend the functionality of the successful Kaiser Permanente personal health record, My Health Manager. Already, My Health Manager's more than 2 million users have convenient and easy online access to clinical information and health management tools, including e-mailing your doctor, online prescription refills and appointment scheduling. Connecting My Health Manager to the HealthVault platform will allow users to combine personal health information from Kaiser Permanente and a wide range of health and wellness management applications and devices such as blood pressure monitors.

Kaiser Permanente

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:53:00 +0000

CCHIT names PHR Advisory Task Force

Special congratulation to Dr Agrawal, an advocate of Medication Reconciliation. SV

Members of the task force are:

Co-chairs: Mark Leavitt, CCHIT, and Paul Tang, M.D., Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Abha Agrawal, M.D., Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York
Richard Benoit, Intel Digital Health Group
Lorraine Doo, Office of e-Health Standards and Services, CMS
Steve Findlay, Consumers Union
Meighan Girgus, American Heart Association
Theresa Hancock, Veterans and Consumers Health Informatics Office, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Leslie Harris, Center for Democracy and Technology
Missy Krasner, Google Health
Steve Lampkin, Wal-Mart
Holly Miller, M.D., University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio
Don Mon, American Health Information Management Association
Anna Lisa Silvestre, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
Michael Stokes, Microsoft Corporation
Michael Ubl, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Patient representative (to be named)

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:41:00 +0000

CCHIT establishes Personal Health Records (PHR) Work Group

The Personal Health Records (PHR) Work Group was established in 2008 as part of the Certification Commission expansion. It is preparing to engage in CCHIT Certified 09 efforts.

Special congratulations to Dr Eytan:physician, philosopher, traveler. SV

Personal Health Records Work Group Members

Co-Chair:
Ted Eytan, MD MS MPH
Medical Director, Health Informatics & Web Services
Group Health Cooperative

Lory Wood
VP, Chief Security and Compliance Officer
Good Health Network

Members:
Nicole Antonson, RN, MBA
Program Manager, Patient Safety
McKesson

Suzie Burke-Bebee, MSIS, MS, RN
Senior Health Informatician
Dept Health and Human Services

Albert Chan, MD, MS
Physician Champion of Electronic Health Record and PAMFOnline
Sutter Health, Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group

Haris Domazet
Division Lead of Web Technical Services
Epic Systems Corporation

Donna DuLong, RN, BSN
Program Director
TIGER Initiative

Paul Edge
VP, Clinical Solutions
Misys Healthcare Systems

Michael Galang, DO, MS
Chief Medical Information Officer
Catholic Health System of Western New York

Lenel James, BS, MBA
Senior Project Manager
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Jerry Lin
Product Manager
Google

Cortney Nicolato
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances & Health IT
American Heart Association National Center

Jan Oldenburg
Practice Leader
Kaiser Permanente

Juhan Sonin
Designer
MITRE

Stelle Smith
Clinical Product Marketing Manager
Sage Software

James Tosone
Director, Healthcare Informatics
Pfizer Inc

Lawrence Williams
President / CEO
Roadside Telematics Corporation

Julie Wolter, MA, RHIA
Assistant Professor
Saint Louis University

CCHIT

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:20:00 +0000

eHealth Initiative: Roadmap and Practical Guides for Rapid Expansion of Electronic Prescribing

eHealth Initiative and The Center for Improving Medication Management Release National Roadmap and Practical Guides for Rapid Expansion of Electronic Prescribing

Multi-stakeholder Group Touts Benefits from E-Prescribing and Makes Recommendations on How to Accelerate its Adoption and Effective Use

The report provides concrete recommendations to move e-prescribing into mainstream practice. Recommendations in the report include:

Adoption and effective use of e-prescribing. All prescribers should adopt e-prescribing as it becomes a mainstream model of care, including small practices, small hospitals, and long term care facilities.

Replicate and expand successful incentive programs. Align incentives developed by federal and state governments, payers, employers, health plans, and health systems.

Address the DEA ban on e-prescribing controlled substances. The federal government should act soon to end the DEA ban on e-prescribing of controlled substances to eliminate the need for physicians to manage duplicative work processes.

Create a public-private multi-stakeholder e-prescribing advisory body. The e-prescribing advisory body must be created to monitor, assess and make recommendations to accelerate the effective use of e-prescribing, and should be made up of diverse stakeholders across every sector of health care.

All stakeholders should advance the e-prescribing infrastructure. The industry should encourage all pharmacies to accept electronic prescriptions and provide medication history information, all payers/PBMs to deliver formulary, eligibility, and medication history information through e-prescribing, and all vendors to deploy and support high-quality e-prescribing applications.

Continue development of additional standards for e-prescribing. While fully connected e-prescribing is delivering real benefits based on the national standards in place today,additional standards development and adoption processes should be supported and accelerated and all stakeholders, including the federal government and the private sector, must be involved.

eHealthiniative

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:36:00 +0000

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt:named 12 communities: CMS EHR Demonstration project

Congratulations and good luck!
We New Yorkers anxiously await expansion of the project. SV

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today named 12 communities that will participate in a national Medicare demonstration project that provides incentive payments to physicians for using certified electronic health records (EHR) to improve the quality of patient care. The five-year, first-of-its-kind project is expected to improve the quality of care provided to an estimated 3.6 million Americans.

“The use of electronic health records, and of health information technology as a whole, has the ability to transform the way health care is delivered in our nation,” Secretary Leavitt said. “We believe that EHRs can help physicians deliver better, more efficient care for their patients, in part by reducing medical errors. This project is designed to demonstrate these benefits and help increase the use of this technology in practices where adoption has been the slowest – at the individual physician and small practice level.”

The communities selected to work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the EHR demonstration project range from county- and state- level to multi-state collaborations. They include:

Alabama
Delaware
Jacksonville, FL (multi-county)
Georgia
Maine
Louisiana
Maryland/Washington, DC
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh, PA (multi-county)
South Dakota (multi-state)
Virginia
Madison, WI (multi-county)

HHS.GOV

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:22:00 +0000

ONCHIT releases strategic HIT plan for 2008 to 2012

EHRs and PHRs are felt to be the key tools help the plan succeed.
While many states have raised significant sums to help this succeed, the Federal government has not done so to the same degree. The Patient Centered Medical Home and other similar initiatives will be need by the Public and Private sector to help accelerate the process. SV

GOALS AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PLAN

The Plan has two goals, Patient-focused Health Care and Population Health, which are defined as follows:

Patient-focused Health Care: Enable the transformation to higher quality, more cost-efficient, patient-focused health care through electronic health information access and use by care providers, and by patients and their designees.

Population Health: Enable the appropriate, authorized, and timely access and use of electronic health information to benefit public health, biomedical research, quality improvement, and emergency preparedness.

Each goal has four objectives and the themes of privacy and security, interoperability, adoption, and collaborative governance recur across the goals, but they apply in very different ways to health care and population health.

HHS.GOV

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:29:00 +0000

Google Health is now ready for primetime

Google Health has agreements in place with quite a few partners to exchange data (with the patient's permission) forward/receive records from healthcare providers, request second opinions and perform online office visits.

Please note the following caveats: neither Google Health nor Microsoft's Healthvault are covered by the current HIPAA regulations. Also, the same username and password that grants you access to Google Mail grants you access to Google Health. In exchange for losing some of the convenience of single login, I would recommend at least nested passwords and and preferably nested user names and passwords.

Translation: to access Google Health after the general login, one would need an extra user name and password. This would decrease the likelihood of someone getting into your Health account.

Another interesting feature to add would be the ability to lock out subsections of the record for viewing or selective transfer of the information. I do think, however, that the recipient would need to be notified that information is being withheld. SV

Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic MyChart
Longs Drug Stores
Medco
MinuteClinic from CVS Caremark
Quest Diagnostics
RxAmerica
Walgreens Pharmacy

iHealthRecord.org

Google/health

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:19:00 +0000

NAHIT releases HIT definitions

This should make for more clearer conversations. SV

The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Releases HIT Definitions Report

Chicago, May 20, 2008— The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Alliance) today released its final report, “Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms”. This report reflects consensus work completed over the last several months on definitions for six important health information technology (IT) terms.

Funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) this project was initiated in response to a growing need to address ambiguous and divergent definitions impeding health IT progress. The lack of clear terminology can lead to unintentional consequences with respect to regulation, other forms of health care policy, contract and purchasing decisions and other health IT initiatives. This need was highlighted by the Alliance’s literature review which identified between 18 and 63 possible definitions for each of five key health IT terms: electronic medical record (EMR,) electronic health record (EHR,) personal health record (PHR,) health information exchange (HIE) and regional health information organization (RHIO.)

The Alliance convened two work groups of experts to develop consensus definitions for these five terms. Because of dual interpretations of HIE as both a process and an organization, it became necessary to clarify the difference between the process of information exchange (HIE) and the oversight and accountability functions necessary to support that process. The project’s Network Work Group therefore added and defined a sixth term, health information organization (HIO.)

“We have developed what we believe to be clear, consistent definitions that offer both immediate and longer-term, practical benefits. We have proposed language that is easily understood by non-technical leaders in health care delivery, policymakers with responsibility and accountability for decisions in the area of health IT, consumers who are being asked to participate more fully in their care and wellness and need education tools to do so.” says Horowitz.

The definitions are:

Electronic Medical Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one health care organization.

Electronic Health Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one health care organization.

Personal Health Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual.

Health Information Exchange
The electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards.

Health Information Organization
An organization that oversees and governs the exchange of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards.

Regional Health Information Organization
A health information organization that brings together health care stakeholders within a defined geographic area and governs health information exchange among them for the purpose of improving health and care in that community.

The full report from the Alliance includes the specific definitions and summarizes the deliberations and conclusions of the two work groups. It concludes with a look forward, envisioning how the definitions, if adopted over time, can support an interoperable infrastructure to realize the benefits of health IT. A copy of the full report can be found at www.nahit.org.

About the Alliance
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is a diverse partnership of senior executives from all healthcare sectors working to advance the adoption of clinical information technology systems to achieve measurable improvements in patient safety, quality of care and operating performance. The Alliance collaborates with healthcare and government leaders to influence healthcare decision-makers to act effectively in creating an efficient, safe, unified, and inclusive health system. Since its founding in 2002, the Chicago-based Alliance has helped forge consensus and accelerate progress on such important initiatives as developing an industry-endorsed interoperability definition, creating a public directory of health IT standards and authoring Rules of Engagement: A proven path for instilling, and then installing a CPOE approach that works. The Alliance is a co-founder of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and its CEO chaired the Commission on Systemic Interoperability (CSI). More information about the Alliance is available at www.nahit.org.

Contact:
Lois Padovani
Padovani Communications
630-241-1430
l.padovani@comcast.net

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:18:00 +0000

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield expands e-Prescribing project to include a "PHR"

In addition to e-Prescribing information, physicians will now have access to claims based diagnoses of other physicians treating the patient as well as "test results". This definitely expands the utility of the "standalone" e-Prescribing service. SV

"Now all licensed New Hampshire practitioners who are part of our ePrescribing program are also able to access both medical records and claims data on Anthem members, anytime, anywhere by using their web-enabled cell phone," said Richard Lafleur, M.D., medical director, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, who added that participants could also access the new program from their office or home computer.

BCBS

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:44:00 +0000

Bronx RHIO update

The Daily News just published an article regarding the six hospitals that will begin sharing information. The consortium of 28 organizations that will finally be involved range from Private Hospitals, HHC Hospitals, a VA Hospital, VNS and more. SV

Daily News

Bronx RHIO

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:03:00 +0000

Father Joe's Villages and McKesson's Practice Partner EHR Help Improve Care for Underserved Communities

This is a wonderful act of charity. SV

"Father Joe’s is a non-profit corporation that consists of several facilities offering a variety of services and programs to the homeless. “McKesson’s EHR has been instrumental in helping us serve this very needy, and often overlooked population throughout the San Diego area and in Indio,” said Dr. Margaret McCahill who serves as the Medical Director at the St. Vincent de Paul Village Family Health Center, which is a part of Father Joe’s Village."

McKesson

Father Joe's Villages

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Prematics: e-Prescribing

New start up company has heavy hitters on "Board".
Reads like a Who's Who of e-Rx and former Government HIT experts. SV

Prematics

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Oklahoma City ERs to be share medical information

Patient safety will be improved and medical costs will be reduced.
How? Reduced adverse drug events, quicker diagnoses, reduced duplication of tests and more. SV

The data to be exchanged includes:

patient demographics, medications, allergies and reactions, diagnosis history, laboratory results, procedures, immunizations and health care providers.

NewsOK.com

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:36:00 +0000

CMS (Medicare) and South Carolina offer PHR (Personal Health Record)

It is only for fee for service Medicare.
No links with Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D or Medicaid. Too bad.
Patients can add to it however. Its a good start but needs the additional links. SV

MyPHRSC is a free and secure electronic Personal Health Record that stores your Medicare claims history for the past 24 months in one convenient place. Updated daily, the health record provides you with one place where you can track your medical history. With MyPHRSC, you don’t have to search through your paper records to find what you need. You can access your records in one place, wherever you are, and whenever you need them. With MyPHRSC, you can view and manage the following Medicare claims information:

Provider Visits
Hospitalizations
Medical conditions

MYPHRSC

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:39:00 +0000

FDA to use 3rd party medication Safety Sentinel System:Wellpoint and others

WellPoint's Safety Sentinel System is being developed in close collaboration with leading government and academic institutions, including the FDA and faculty from key academic institutions, including Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania, and is expected to advance national efforts to identify safety risks associated with drugs and other clinical care decisions, allowing physicians and other health care professionals to make more informed decisions about how to treat their patients.

Wellpoint

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:24:00 +0000

CMS (Medicare) e-Prescribing update

The required tools are currently available in most stand-alone e-Prescribing products and many EHRs. SV

The final e-prescribing rule was placed on display at the Federal Register on April 2, 2008. The final rule provides three electronic tools for use in e-prescribing:

Formulary and benefit transactions: gives prescribers information about which drugs are covered by a Medicare beneficiary's prescription drug benefit plan.

Medication history transactions: provides prescribers with information about medications a beneficiary is already taking, including those prescribed by other providers, to help reduce the number of adverse drug events.

Fill Status notifications: allows prescribers to receive an electronic notice from the pharmacy telling them that a patient's prescription has been picked up, not picked up, or has been partially filled, to help monitor medication adherence in patients with chronic conditions.

The final rule also adopts the National Provider Identifier (NPI) for e-prescribing under Medicare Part D, and retires NCPDP SCRIPT 5.0 in favor of the upgraded NCPDP SCRIPT 8.1.

CMS Overview
CMS pdf

noreply@blogger.com (Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:10:00 +0000

HEAL NY PHASE V (5) Results are in

NEW YORK AWARDS $105 MILLION IN HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GRANTS

Funded Projects

Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY)

* Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX)
* Greater Rochester RHIO
* Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) RHIO
* Western New York Clinical Information Exchange (WYNCIE)
* Southern Tier Health Link
* Health Information Exchange of New York (HIXNY)
* Long Island Patient Information Exchange (LIPIX)
* Bronx RHIO

Clinical Informatics Services (CIS)

* Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX)
* Parker Jewish Institute of Health Care and Rehabilitation
* Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) RHIO

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for Clinicians, Personal Health Tools for Consumers, Community Portals for Clinicians and Public Health Officials

* Sunset Park Health Council
* New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOH MH)
* Greater Rochester RHIO
* Columbia Memorial Hospital
* Interboro RHIO
* Champlain Valley Physicians
* Hudson River Healthcare
* Health Information Technology Alliance of Syracuse (HITAS)

NYS site