Report Offers Tactics for Health Data Exchange Sustainability

A new report from IDC Health Insights outlines best practices for implementing a sustainable health information exchange. The report recommends that stakeholders focus on business, clinical and technical issues before selecting a specific health data exchange vendor or product. It also calls for close collaboration with stakeholders to achieve interoperability. eWeek et al.

Many Patients Prefer To Access Radiology Results Online, Survey Finds

A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology finds that nearly 80% of surveyed patients would prefer to receive their radiology results through an online portal instead of through traditional notification methods like phone calls or in-person consultations. CMIO.

VA, Pentagon Eye 3M's Health Data Dictionary for Joint EHR Project

To standardize terminology for their joint integrated electronic health record project, the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs might be planning to use 3M's Health Data Dictionary. A final contract has not been made public. Government Health IT, FierceHealthIT.

Are Federal Training Programs Meeting the Growing Need for a New Health IT Workforce?

Tim Andrews of Booz Allen Hamilton, Helen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Norma Morganti of the Midwest Community College Health IT Consortium spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to bolster the health IT workforce.

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What Do Health IT Stakeholders See as the Biggest Barriers to Health Data Exchange?

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Among 185 surveyed health IT stakeholders, 61% cited funding and sustainability issues as a major barrier to achieving widespread health information exchange, and 53% cited interoperability standards as a major barrier, according to a National eHealth Collaborative survey.

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