January 31, 2013
On Tuesday, Cerner CEO Neal Patterson testified before a joint hearing of the members of the federal HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees in Washington, D.C. Patterson was part of a group of industry experts offering statements on the barriers and opportunities related to health information exchanges (HIEs) in the United States.
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December 19, 2012
This is a tale of two forces whose combined synergies have created a perfect storm triggering an urgent call to action. Our protagonists, scalable trust and patient engagement, are driving the escalation of solutions to a long-standing problem in Direct exchange: the establishment of trust between HISPs.
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September 28, 2012
Beyond federal incentives and government mandates, the increasing value of health information exchange (HIE) is apparent in today’s health care landscape. As an emergency physician at two local hospitals and the medical director for our regional HIE, the Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN), I have firsthand experience of the critical importance of health information technology in clinical practice.
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August 17, 2012
Curious how health IT (EHRs, PHRs, HIE, etc.) will affect your trip to a hospital or doctor's office?
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January 10, 2012
I practice family medicine at Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Okla. We’re connected to SMRTNET, a health information exchange (HIE) in Oklahoma developed by Cerner in 2005. With more than 27 million health records in the system covering 2.6 million lives, the saturation of clinic, hospital and laboratory data within SMRTNET is second to none anywhere in the nation. It’s the access to this data via the HIE that is revolutionizing my practice.
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July 20, 2011
Earlier today the University of Missouri Health System announced they’re one of the nation's "Most Wired" hospitals according to the 2011 Most Wired Survey released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. They were the only facility in mid-Missouri to make the list.
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July 08, 2011
SMRTNET is the largest Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the state of Oklahoma, containing nearly 2 million patient records from 45 unique contributing facilities. It is the product of a four year effort to provide a capability for medical providers to securely exchange electronic health information under federal and state law with onnections that include hospitals, physician offices, laboratory, university, Native American tribe, public health, mental health, and community health centers.
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