Monthly Archives: July 2011

Posted on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 Filed Under: eHealth Initiative

The New Proposed Rule

If you have a certified EMR, you’ll be able to account for disclosures simply by using your EMR, right? Not exactly. Hospitals have a large number of gateways and historic infrastructures. The largest hospitals – the IDNs – grew by … Continue reading


Posted on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Filed Under: eHealth Initiative, Guest Post, Health Information Exchange

The Mystery of Dispensed Medications in the HIE

A small Health Information Organization (HIO) Executive’s job is an endless array of SOWs from the HIE vendor, VPN specifications and code from the hosting environment, seed and test data from the early adopters which if printed, would go around … Continue reading


Posted on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Filed Under: eHealth Initiative, Guest Post, Health Information Exchange

Our Experiences In Building A Health Information Exchange

I appreciate that eHI is sponsoring a blog on health information technology and exchange issues. When I first saw the announcement I wondered what anyone would write about.  However, on one of my many marathon drives across the Kansas prairie … Continue reading


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