Noam ArztA recent article in HealthAffairs describes a significant decline in the number of both operational HIEs and HIEs in the planning stage from several years earlier. The authors note continuing barriers to broad-based HIE and a shift to vendor-driven exchange which diminishes the effectiveness of community-based networks. In effect, this translates to a shift away from geographic-based/dominated HIEs to product-dominated HIEs. We have already noted (see The Interoperability of Things) the lack of a national strategy on HIE, and ONC’s Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap barely mentions the concept.
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7 Healthcare Big Data Projects Get Knight Foundation Funding To Push For Public Health
Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | January 15, 2014
An online portal connecting researchers with people willing to share their health data, a community health dashboard and a text-based counseling program for teens were the big winners of The Knight Foundation’s $2.2 million health data challenge. Read More »
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A Giant Step Toward a Culture of Health
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Blog | October 1, 2013
More than 48 million Americans live without health insurance coverage. They are people we all know. They are our neighbors, friends, and family members. Read More »
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Beth Israel Launches Pilot That Lets Patients Read Therapists’ Notes
Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | July 8, 2014
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a pilot in which 700 mental health patients receive access to their therapists’ notes on their laptop or smartphone, according to a must-read report in the New York Times...
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DocGraph Releases Browser Extension 'Batea' That Helps Medical Students Contribute to Wikipedia Medical Articles
Press Release |
DocGraph |
November 17, 2015
Today DocGraph publicly released Batea, a browser extension that tracks clinical reference URLs visited by medical students when they study. Batea was built by DocGraph with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Medical students across the country are encouraged to download the Batea extension for use on their personal computers. Browsing histories will be aggregated monthly and shared with WikiProject Medicine to help direct future improvements to Wikipedia medical articles.
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ERs Seeing Increase In Patients Under Obamacare
Laura Ungar | The Courier-Journal | June 16, 2014
It wasn't supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month...
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How Can Open Source Projects Support Themselves in Health Care?
By Andy Oram | December 24, 2015
High prices and poor usability hasn't driven the health care industry away from megalithic, proprietary applications. What may win the industry over to open source (in addition to the hope of fixing those two problems) is its promises of easy customization, infinite flexibility, extensibility, and seamless data exchange. As we will see, open platforms also permit organizations to collaborate on shared goals, which appeals to many participants. But if open source projects can't charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for installation as their commercial competitors do, how will they pay their developers and hold together as projects? This article compares three major organizations in the open source health care space: the tranSMART Foundation, Open Health Tools (OHT), and Open mHealth. Each has taken a different path to the universal goal of stability.
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New Tool Takes Measure Of Public Health
Staff Writer | Healthcare IT News | August 26, 2014
It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to gauge whether their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...
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OpenNotes Introduces Advisory Board
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OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
September 12, 2016
OpenNotes is pleased to announce that ten extraordinary advocates for health care quality and improvement are the founding members of the OpenNotes Advisory Board. OpenNotes is a national movement that urges doctors, nurses and other health care providers to share the notes they write with the patients they care for...
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RWJF Awards Grant to PatientsLikeMe to Develop New Measures for Healthcare Performance
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PatientsLikeMe, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Quality Forum |
December 8, 2015
PatientsLikeMe has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to help jumpstart changes that will amplify the patient voice in the measurement of healthcare performance. “We have an abundance of clinical measures, but we need to better incorporate the voice of the patient into performance measurement” A portion of the grant funds a collaboration between PatientsLikeMe and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to develop, test and facilitate the broader use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess patient-reported health status.
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RWJF Report: Time to Transition to a Post-HITECH World?
By Irv Lichtenwald | October 28, 2015
Context and perspective matter. And it’s often both context and perspective that are lacking from the daily snapshots we get of health information technology, meaningful use, interoperability and the progress we are either making or not making, depending on your perspective. So I welcome a report like the one the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released last month on the state of health information technology circa 2015 in these United States. Subtitled “Transition to a Post-HITECH World,” the detailed report, created in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Communication, the Harvard School of Public Health and Mathematica Policy Research, takes a 10,000-feet view of the ongoing digitalization of healthcare and what the priorities are as we approach the terminus of HITECH.
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Six Funders Working To Set Science Free
Tate Williams | Inside Philanthropy | December 3, 2014
Sharing information is easier than ever, but much scientific research remains maddeningly walled-off in publications charging thousands of dollars for access. Some prominent funders are part of a growing movement to make science more open...
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State-Based Obamacare Exchanges Cost Far More Than The Federal Marketplace
Sophie Novack | Nextgov.com | May 2, 2014
...New data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details the amount spent on consumer assistance for the Affordable Care Act in each state, and like overall enrollment numbers, the state totals vary a huge amount. Consumer-assistance programs are those intended to help individuals understand and enroll in coverage under Obamacare, including the Navigator program, the In-Person Assister program, and Certified Application Counselors...
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The Reduction of State-coordinated HIE: How Should Public Health React?
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | August 2, 2016
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These Graphs Show How Fast Hospitals Are Adopting Computers -- And How Far They Have To Go
Matthew Herper | Forbes | July 10, 2013
On Monday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published its annual report on health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
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Time To Measure Public Health Effectiveness
Staff Writer | Government Health IT | August 25, 2014
It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to actually gauge whether or not their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...
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