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EHNAC Articles

The value of EHNAC continues to be recognized throughout the industry.  Below you will find links to recent articles relating to the latest advancements in healthcare-related data management.

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HIE Accreditation Service Offered To Software Vendors
Thursday, 25 August 2011
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As featured on InformationWeek

By Neil Versel

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission announces a privacy and security testing program to accompany existing health information exchange accreditation.

 
HITECH, HIPAA and Financial Institutions: Building a Roadmap to Ensure Privacy and Security
Thursday, 26 May 2011
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As featured on HIMSS Business Edge

By Lee Barrett

With the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, electronic business processes in healthcare are evolving at lightning speed. More specifically, organizations are seeking more effective ways to link the provision of healthcare services with payments for those services. Financial institutions across the country have adopted healthcare financial transactions – the integration of banking technology, infrastructure and credit with healthcare administrative operations – to help streamline payment processes, reduce paper-based inefficiencies and improve workflow for their business customers in healthcare.

 
Assessing HIEs on Privacy Issues
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
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As featured on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com

Enforcing standards for privacy and security is a major part of a new health information exchange accreditation program, says Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission.

 
HITECH Compliance Help for Financial Institutions
Sunday, 20 February 2011
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As featured in Health Data Management

Financial institutions that transmit or modify protected health information for covered entities, or store or archive PHI now are covered under the HITECH Act’s strengthened provisions of the HIPAA privacy and security rule.

 
Utah HIE Becomes Accredited
Thursday, 17 February 2011
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As featured in Healthcare Informatics

Interview: Jan Root, Ph.D., President and CEO, Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) — Healthcare Informatics

 
Banks Need Primer on PHI Protections
Thursday, 03 February 2011
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HDM Breaking News, February 3, 2011

Banks are angling to use their national transactions networks and portfolio of financial services to win more business in the health care industry.

 
Choosing an HIE Model
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
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As featured in For The Record

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are nearly as varied as individual communities within the United States, and they must take into account the number and types of healthcare systems in the geographic area, the prevalence of certain diseases, and the values on which the community places importance, says J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange

 
Predicamenton Predicament
Monday, 13 September 2010
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As featured in For The Record

The healthcare industry is in the midst of a debate about how best to handle consumer consent concerns in a health information exchange setting.

 
Along the path to HIE uptake, EHRs play a widening role
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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As featured in CMIO

Recent conversations with several health IT pros have made clearer the EHR connection to HIEs. As one of the features in this Portal indicates, an EHR can expand clinical information exchange throughout an organization, and can bridge gaps in the exchange process, thus paving the way for HIE connections.

 
EHNAC offers recommendations on health IT certification
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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As featured in Healthcare It News

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards group, is recommending changes in the government's draft rules on health IT certification that EHNAC officials say would make the rules stronger.

 
Accrediting HIEs
Sunday, 22 August 2010
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As featured in Journal of AHIMA

Health information exchange (HIE) networks have always understood the importance of gaining patient and provider trust. However, beyond describing the privacy and security policies and procedures they establish to protect the information they exchange, they have largely had to ask patients and providers to have faith—faith that those policies and procedures were in place and being followed.

 
Everything you knew about certification is about to change
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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As featured on FierceEMR

June is nearly upon us, and with it comes the anxious last days before HHS finalizes rules for "meaningful use" of health IT and for certification of EMR products. (National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal is sticking to his promise that everything will be done in late spring, and summer begins June 21.)

 
Healthcare Standardization
Monday, 24 May 2010
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As featured on the TAWPI Blog

Standardization of industry practices is critical to the strength of the healthcare market. Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) explains:

 
NHIN Is Fully Functional, Secure
Monday, 17 May 2010
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As featured in Advance for Health Information Professionals

The Cooperative Exchange announced that the National Health Information Network (NHIN) superhighway currently exists through the inter- and intra- connectivity of its member organizations, and electronic health records (EHR) can currently be transferred between providers securely and efficiently.

 
Safety on the Health Information Highway
Friday, 14 May 2010
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As featured on the TAWPI Blog

New HIE Accreditation could act as a safety signpost on the healthcare information highway. Lee Barrett, executive directory of the Electronic Healthcare Network Acceditation Commission (EHNAC) explains:
It’s almost impossible to imagine the engineers and architects behind the scenes of highway and road design and construction approaching their jobs without due concern for road-user safety. After all, building a transportation system and ensuring that its users are safe are intrinsically linked. So it is too with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). With the NHIN taking on more tangible form and function, the realities of enabling health information to be exchanged securely over the Internet take on new significance and dimension. More specifically, there are compelling concerns for the protection of patients whose records are disseminated throughout this electronic super-highway system.

 
EHNAC Continues Down Network Accreditation Path
Thursday, 13 May 2010
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As featured in Government Health IT

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission continues to rollout accreditation programs but is not immediately seeking to become an electronic health records certification body.

 
Grassley sends wake-up call to health IT vendors
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
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As featured in CMIO

Call it a checkup of sorts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Senator said he aims to ensure the “effective and efficient use of taxpayer money” in implementing health IT.

 
Best Practices for Gateway EDI
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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As featured on the TAWPI Blog

As one of the fastest-growing providers of healthcare electronic data interchange, Gateway EDI processes transactions for more than 10,000 medical offices representing 50,000 providers in all 50 states. Gateway EDI also connects to more than 3,000 payers and offers services ranging from standard claims processing and status reports to more advanced capabilities such as technology for flagging rejected claims.

 
e-Prescribing Accreditation
Monday, 10 May 2010
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As featured on the TAWPI Blog

By Lee Barrett

As pharmacy continues to play an ever-important role in patient care, pharmacists progressively maintain access to sensitive patient information. Added to this, there is increased incidence of electronic prescribing, at the encouragement of federal agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services. e-Prescribing has even been referred to as the “on-ramp” to the healthcare information highway.

 
Lessons from the HIE Front
Monday, 03 May 2010
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As featured in Health Data Management

For every health information exchange and regional health information organization, there are hard lessons being learned as the initiatives struggle to start operations and grow.

 
Is Three a Crowd?
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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As featured in Government Health IT

At least three groups are looking to establish a commercial seal of approval for health information exchanges and regional health information organizations.
 


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