Indiana Health Information Exchange’s Quality Program Reaches 1,500 Physicians, Over 1 Million Patients

Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2, 2011—The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) announced that its Quality Health First Program has enrolled over 1,500 physicians in over 50 communities throughout Indiana to help improve screenings rates and to support the management of medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma and breast cancer for nearly one million Hoosiers.

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RFID Showcase

RFID Showcase

Coming to the AID of Healthcare

Many companies focus on the realm of RFID (radio frequency identification) for healthcare, and there have been some significant challenges both on the R&D side and the practitioner’s implementation side.

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Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Environment

Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Environment

Silver Hill Hospital of New Canaan, Connecticut, recently joined a select group of psychiatric hospitals in the United States that have implemented an electronic health record (EHR) system. Founded in 1931, Silver Hill Hospital is a 129-bed not-for-profit psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient and residential transitional living programs for adolescents and adults.

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Clinical Analytics

Clinical Analytics

EMR Implementation Is an Opportunity, Not a Guarantee

As hospital IT leaders consider how to address meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR) within their own organizations, they should see the next generation of EMRs as an opportunity to take arms against avoidable medical errors, improve the level of personalized medicine, and reduce hospital readmissions to boost quality scores.

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