Tag Archives: HIE
Top 10 ICC Services for Improved Health Care
What are the opportunities for integrated solutions to address the health industry gaps discussed in prior blog postings? One of the exciting possibilities is the use of IT to make the overall health care system more efficient through a new class of intermediary – Health Information Exchanges (HIE) – that serve as integrators of the highly fragmented information silos that exist in the industry. HIE’s are, in essence, Integration Competency Centers that promise to improve health care delivery by improving efficiency and applying Lean Integration principles. (more…)
Health Care Is Ready For Lean Integration
In my last post I wrote about how 2010 will be The Year of the ICC. For the health care industry, 2010 could be the Year of Lean Health Information Integration. Integration Competency Centers have been in existence in health care for over a decade – they are called Health Information Exchanges or HIEs. One of the first (if not the first) was the Indiana HIE which began in 1994. There are now over 150 HIEs across the U.S. as per the eHealth Initiative website. (more…)