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What they are – How they work
By Staff Reporters
The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations, whose shared mission is to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare information technology [HIT].
Protean Stakeholders
Both organizations are focused on engaging diverse stakeholders–including hospitals and other healthcare organizations, clinician, consumers and patient groups, employers and purchasers, health plans, manufacturers, public health agencies, academic and research institutions, and public sector stakeholders–to define and then implement specific actions that will address the quality, safety and efficiency challenges of domestic medical care through the use of interoperable HIT.
Membership
Since 2001, the eHealth Initiative has represented a diverse membership that is improving HIT. Over the years, eHI membership has grown to over 200 organizations.
Coalition Growth
In 2005, eHI launched the eHI Connecting Communities Membership, a rapidly growing coalition of leaders representing more than 200 state, regional and community-based initiatives focused on improving health through information exchange.
In 2009, eHI adopted the Information Therapy (Ix) Action Alliance. The IxAction Alliance, previously a part of the Center for Information Therapy – an eHI member – resides at the intersection of patient-centered care and HIT, focusing on issues relating to the prescription and use of targeted health information to help people make good health decisions and lead healthy lives.
Assessment
The adoption of e-health initiatives promises to revolutionize health care in the United States by reducing errors, improving the quality of care delivered, reducing costs, and empowering consumers to better understand and address their own health care needs.
eHI is one of the few organization that represents all stakeholders in the industry. eHI advocates for the use of health IT that is practical, sustainable and addresses stakeholder needs, particularly those of patients.
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Shame on you ME-P
Having just returned from HIMSS, I noted your absence at the general meeting, and especially the “meet the bloggers” sessions. And, in your home town of Atlanta; so, shame on you for your absence.
Nevertheless, I noted that eHRs, cloud computing, Software as a Service and ASP models are everywhere despite lingering concerns about how to ensure privacy in such environments. And, the Continuity of Care initiative is gaining traction. I also found many vendors supporting CC document exports from their eHRs. Moreover, patient engagement and participation is going main-stream, while Google and Microsoft continue to innovate in the non-tethered PHR marketplace.
Hope to see you there … next year.
A Disgruntled Subscriber
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DS
Well said, and I agree. I wanted to meet you all, or at least some of you, at HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta, GA.
Karen
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Dear Karen and other Disgruntled Subscriber[s]
Oh my! We have a mutiny.
Unfortunately this is tax season, and as consultants and advisors, a very busy time for us. Moreover, while HIMSS [Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society] related activities do encompass a portion of what we do, e-healthcare IT is not our sole focus.
Rather, our goal is to integrate medical practice management, and personal financial planning, for all medical professionals.
And, thorough the unbiased collaboration of this sharing forum, we have become a leading network in the healthcare administration, economics and financial advisory space for doctors and hospital executives.
Moreover, in the modern Health 2.0 era, our goal is to “bridge the gap between medical mission and profit margin.”
Of course, this is explanation for our absence; it is not an excuse. I trust we will see ya’ll at the next HIMSS conference, in 2011.
Hope Rachel Hetico RN, MHA, CMP™
[Managing Editor]
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