eHealth News

CalOHII is seeking stakeholder comments on two critical HIE initiatives: the Patient Authorization Guidance Tool and the updated Model Modular Participant Agreement.
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LOS ANGELES – L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, announces that for its eConsult telehealth program, more than 15,000 “eConsults”, which are electronic consultations between primary care providers (PCP) and specialists, have been initiated. The program is the largest rollout of its type in the nation, used by 1,300 PCPs in 108 community clinic/health center sites across L.A. County. Read more...

Formation of the California Association of Health Information Exchanges, a statewide group of community and enterprise health information organization leaders working together to advance safe and secure HIE throughout California, was announced at the May 8-9 HIE Summit. 

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2013 HIE Stakeholder Summit Presentations
05/13/2013 by eHealth Initiative

Over 300 individuals attended the 2013 California HIE Stakeholder Summit in Sacramento, May 8-9. Selected presentations are now available as PDFs. Online video will be available soon too, so please check back on the Summit link. 

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Dr. Ken Kizer on Consumers and Health IT
04/20/2013 by eHealth Initiative
In this audio report we spoke with Ken Kizer, MD, Director of the Institute for Population Health Improvement, UC Davis Health System, and of California Health eQuality, the state’s partner for health information exchange development. Dr. Kizer highlights his presentation on health IT and consumers, the topic of his recent presentation at a meeting of the Southern California HIMSS chapter. 

 

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In this audio report Chief of the Health Information Policy & Standards Division in the Office of Health Information Integrity, Cassie McTaggart describes California's exciting statewide HIE governance initiative which is modeled after the highly successful Western States Consortium and builds on the federal DURSA, Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement.

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About eHealth Initiative

We believe in creating health, vibrance, and well-being for our families and our communities. With this goal in mind, a coalition of groups in the state called the California eHealth Initiative is working to improve the accuracy and efficiency of healthcare. This includes health IT, electronic health records (EHR), telemedicine, and electronic health information. This also includes creating IT jobs in California to create a vibrant and robust health workforce. When used in a systematic and thoughtful way, eHealth can transform healthcare as we know it. Read More...

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