Health Information Exchange

Evaluating Health Information Exchange Vendors

By Richard Braman Ok, I first must admit this is a slightly self-indulgent post, but in the light that other health information exchange vendors are out and about making comparisons, I thought it would be appropriate to chime in about evaluating health information exchange software vendors. We recently put our first bid in to do [...]

ACOs: Health Information Exchange improves Patient experience

A patient’s journey in the health care system usually begins in their primary physician’s office. The primary specialist will seek to treat the patient based on information provided from the patient at the point of care. Access to pertinent information for providers across health care systems improves patient experience because the provider knows all the [...]

EHR Doctors joins Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

EHR Doctors announced today that the company has joined Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise(IHE). EHR Doctors has implemented IHE standard profiles throughout the MEDIBRIDGE.NET solution and is fully committed to implementing the IHE standards within its product set. EHR Doctors plans to become more active in IHE standards development through formal participation (instead of just observing [...]

OPC – FOSS vs Proprietary HIT

By Richard Braman CTO OPC – You Know Me By now, if you haven’t been hiding under a rock somewhere, you have probably heard of OPM (Other People’s Money), and OPP (Other People’s (relationship) Partners). But today, I want to talk to you about what I like to refer to as OPC “Other People’s Code”, [...]

NHIN Direct: Beyond Bare Metal Series

Beyond Bare Metal Series discusses moving the Java Reference implementation code “Known as Bare Metal” from the Direct Project and tuning it into a production capable Direct Messaging system. Some of the topics we have already blogged include: Beyond Bare Metal: Enabling S-POP and S-SMTP in Direct Beyond Bare Metal: Integrating NwHIN Direct to Use [...]

Midland meets Meaningful Use with Medibridge.Net

That’s MMMM Good! During HIMSS 12 in Las Vegas, Midland Memorial Hospital announced that it has met the requirements for Stage One Meaningful Use. Midland uses EHR Doctors Medibridge.net for exchange of clinical information, and has received an initial ARRA Meaningful Use incentive payment for EHR adoption from the federal government. Midland Memorial, a public [...]

Health Information Exchange Reduces Uncompensated Care

By Gerard Reeder Health care organizations often overlook the use of Health Information Exchange to reduce uncompensated care because of all the Government’s other Health IT incentive programs currently underway (Meaningful Use, ACOs) . The health care industry is undergoing a huge transformation and part of that evolution is the increasing reach and power of [...]

State of Texas DIR awards HIE technology contract

EHR Doctors will offer discounted pricing for MediBridge.Net ARRA Meaningful Use Certified Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions to Texas DIR customers. DALLAS, May 03, 2012 All State of Texas agencies, including state, county and local government offices, public education and other public entities in Texas can now purchase EHR Doctors’ MediBridge.Net solutions, the best-in-class ARRA [...]

Meaningful Use Roadmap for HIE

By Gerard Reeder During our discussions with hospital staffs, HIE is often defined differently depending on who we are talking to. When asked for a definition of HIE, the answers we get back range from: paperless, email, provider portals, and electronic summary of care records. While all the answers touched on are relevant to the [...]

Beyond Bare Metal: Enabling S-POP and S-SMTP in Direct

Background In order to make sure the connection between the Direct User and the Direct James Mail server secure, you must enable S-POP and S-SMTP, which simply adds SSL to secure the connection . Encryption between the client and server is required for HIPAA and Meaningful Use Privacy and Security. The following shows how to [...]