Role

The Patient’s Role in Health Information Management

August 25, 2011

In our series to date, we have been exploring the need for unified patient information management (UPIM). We’ve discussed the role that different healthcare stakeholders, including health plans and providers, play in making positive and long-lasting change in our healthcare system under the adoption of a patient-centric approach to information management.  In this final post, [...]

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Service-Oriented Architecture Standards and Their Role in Enterprise Interoperability

August 18, 2011

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, will present a complimentary Ambassador webinar titled “HL7 Service-Oriented Architecture Standards and Their Role in Enterprise Interoperability” on Monday, August 22 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT. HL7 Press Releases

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The Role of Physicians in Driving Toward Unified Patient Information Management

August 17, 2011

In our series on unified patient information management, we first introduced this new integrated approach followed by a blog post on the central position health plans have in driving toward the wider adoption of systems for UPIM.  In this third blog post of our UPIM series, we focus on the role of physicians in adopting [...]

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The Role of Health Plans in Effective Patient Information Management

August 10, 2011

In our first blog post in this series on better patient information management, we covered the overarching benefits for adopting a unified approach to patient data. Now, we would like to turn our attention to the specific role of health plans in driving the industry toward this new standardized approach, helping stakeholders galvanize around scalable [...]

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Health Level Seven Appoints Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, to Role of CEO

December 24, 2010

35-year veteran of healthcare IT industry to oversee Health Level Seven’s worldwide healthcare IT standards development organization HL7 Press Releases

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Images Play a Vital Role in Creating a Complete Patient Record

November 23, 2010

To the dismay of the radiology community, medical imaging was not included as a key component in the initial draft of the CMS Meaningful Use (MU) of Electronic Health Records criteria. Fortunately, for patients and the tens of thousands of radiology professionals who serve them, imaging data components have been expanded and the role of [...]

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HL7 Assumes Leadership Role in Historic Charter Organization with Leading U.S. Standards Developers

October 25, 2010

Ann Arbor, MI., U.S. – March 19, 2009 – As health system reform and the movement to give each American an interoperable EHR by 2014 pick up speed, Health Level Seven (HL7) today announced its participation in the new SDO (standards development organization) Charter Organization (SCO). The purpose of the SCO is to increase coordination [...]

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The Important Role of a Radiology CIO

September 25, 2010

Healthcare CIOs, in general, carry a significant responsibility load. There are many systems and constituencies which must come together efficiently and productively to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care. Healthcare CIOs are enablers, supporting a wide-range of initiatives simultaneously prioritized by almost every department in a given hospital or radiology group. For [...]

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