Erica Galvez | April 2, 2013
Last week we discussed the importance of health information exchange (HIE) and the work being done in Maryland to help make sure that providers receive important updates about patients. This week we want to share with our readers how HIE entities and automated, real time alerts can be critical in mental health care coordination for patients.
Kory Mertz | March 29, 2013
In an effort to help consumers and patients get and use their own health information, the states of Georgia, Indiana, Montana and Nebraska took up an ONC challenge to implement innovative approaches to enable consumer-mediated exchange and open up patients’ access to their medical records. Their innovative consumer engagement initiatives can be found at HealthIT.gov.
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Erica Galvez | March 26, 2013
Last week we introduced Larry, the patient with diabetes and a history of non-compliance who is discharged from his local emergency department, but his primary care doctor is never notified about his visit. Larry landed back in the emergency department less than a month later due to complications of his diabetes.
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Erica Galvez | March 22, 2013
Let’s start with a story that is all-too-common: a patient goes to the emergency room, but the primary care doctor is left out of the loop. Today, that patient is Larry.
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The Honorable Martin O'Malley | March 18, 2013
To support innovation and progress in health care, I have made the construction of a health IT infrastructure one of our state’s top strategic priorities. My administration has promoted Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption and supported the construction of a Maryland HIE (health information exchange). Connecting these systems to a common platform is the key to significant progress.
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