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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. When I started my career in health information, I worked in the medical records department. One area where Mueller believes HIM professionals can make a significant difference is interoperability. A lot has changed. “I

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Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative dissolves, saying 'work completed'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

A Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) CDA document vs a CCDA CCD. focused more on template inheritance -- Template Identifiers, Business Rules and Degrees of Interoperability -- with a cool graphic text/x-hl7-text+xml urn:hl7-org:sdwg:ccda-structuredBody:1.1 are laying around. Keith covered this in a different way back in 2009.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

I transitioned into healthcare in 2005, working in the emergency room at the University of Chicago as a social worker on the South Side of Chicago, surrounded by 10 of the 14 poorest neighborhoods in the state of Illinois. I was also a product development manager and a senior account executive.