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.
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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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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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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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California Health and Human Services has identified a breakthrough audacious goal specific to foster care in its pursuit of health information technology and exchange: providing interoperable personal health records to all foster children in the state. A new report summarizes past and current efforts to reach this goal, and includes recommendations for moving forward.
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The California Endowment (TCE) announced a $90 million, multi-year plan to increase the capacity of the state’s existing health care delivery system to accommodate newly enrolled Californians under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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HITEC-LA announced that more than 1,500 of its members who are eligible primary care providers have reached meaningful use with certified electronic health record (EHR) systems.
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The registration problem for groups and clinics that prevented providers from using group volumes has been resolved as of today, March 15, 2013. The SLR Helpdesk (866-879-0109) will be open this weekend (Saturday 8-5 and Sunday 8-12) to assist with questions and technical difficulties that may arise.
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