NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION NEWS-WATCH

Timely and current information regarding RHIOs in the United States is available at NHIN Watch, http://nhinwatch.com/performSearch.cms?channelId=1The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) offers a listserv mail list which announces what ONCHIT is doing to advance RHIO development.It can be found at: https://list.nih.gov/archives/health-it.h...

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Google announces collaboration with Practice Fusion

Practice Fusion and Google, the internet search engine have announced a collaboration whereby the EMR and RHIO solution will be offered to providers free of charge. Income will be derived from advertising banners supplied and linked by Google, which will be accessible from the EMR pages used by the provider online. Privacy issues are one of the main concerns for this business model, which however can be addressed since the advertising would not be linked to particular patient's recor...

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Featured in RHIO Monitor CALRHIO selects Vendors

Featured in: RHIO MonitorCalRHIO Selects Medicity and Perot Systems Corporation to Build Statewide Health Information Exchange for CaliforniaCalRHIO Selects Medicity and Perot Systems Corporation to BuildStatewide Health Information Exchange for CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March13, 2007 – CalRHIO announced today that it has selected Medicity, Inc.,teamed with Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE:PER), to build a statewidehealth information exchange utility service that will offer Californiahealth care providers secure electronic access to patient medicalrecords, where and when they are needed.“CalRHIO’s primary goal is to deliver critical health informationservices reliably and affordably to clinicians, patients, state,county, and federal health agencies, and local exchange effortsthroughout...

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Cerner Statement

I missed last week’s deadline for RHIO MONITOR and Health Train Express due to some interviews and other related projects on EMR. I myself am in the midst of examining and implementing an EMR for my practice. In the process I have had the advantage of my research and study of RHIO as coordinator of a RHIO. In my evaluation it has become apparent that having an EMR which is certified by CCHIT is the ticket of admission, for any serious vendor. All that hard work of the past two years is paying off and demonstrates the process will take time and much patience. Of course I am speaking to the choir, but it emphasizes that we need to do a lot more educating of our fellow physicians. The scope and depth of understanding varies tremendously amongst physicians about EMRs, and RHIOs. ...

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