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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Health Information Exchange"”.
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Health Information Exchange Use in Primary Care
… has invested over $40 billion in digitizing the health care system, yet the anticipated gains in improved care coordination, quality, and cost savings remain largely unrealized. This is due in part to limited interoperability and low rates of health information exchange (HIE) use, which can …
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Implementing health information exchange with searchable encryption
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is an infrastructure that facilitates exchange of electronic health records between healthcare organizations. Because medical records are highly sensitive data subject to various federal and local regulation, in addition to company policies, it is imperative to …
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Privacy-preserving audit for broker-based health information exchange
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Seth Robbins (robbins.sd@gmail.com) on 2014-05-30T17:09:48Z Item is restricted until 2016-05-30T17:09:03Z
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Emergency Physicians' Perspectives on the Usability of Health Information Exchange
<p>Emergency physicians are key users of health information exchanges (HIE). Understanding their perspectives on the usability of HIE is important if the full potential of the HIE is to be achieved. The literature identified that emergency physician experiences with HIEs are unexplored areas …
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Understanding the Current State of Health Information Exchange in Long-Term Care Homes
… thesis aimed to examine the current state of health information exchange (HIE) processes within the Canadian long-term care (LTC) setting and identify opportunities to improve these processes through the proliferation of health information technology (HIT). Methods: The first study undertook a …
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Facilitating health information exchange in low- and middle-income countries: conceptual considerations, stakeholders perspectives and deployment strategies illustrated through an in-depth case study of Pakistan
Background Health information exchange (HIE) may help healthcare professionals and policymakers make informed decisions to improve patient and population health outcomes. There is, however, limited uptake of HIE in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While resource constraints are an …
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Extended Evaluation: Unraveling Medicaid Patient Trajectories and Improving Intervention Candidate Identification
… to conduct an analysis of the Camden Coalition’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) data to gain deeper insights into the trajectories of Medicaid patients through the health system. Recognizing the complex challenges of social determinants of health, this study seeks to find patterns and …
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) incentivizes hospitals to utilize health information technology (HIT), including electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Hospitals have responded by increasing the implementation …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Care and Mis-Measured Self-Reports of Cancer Screening Status
… attempting to assess the impact of expanded health insurance policy on cancer care continuum and measure the unbiased program effects after taking care of mis-measured cancer screening self-reports. The first essay examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion on time to …
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Using information-sharing exchange techniques from the private sector to enhance information sharing between domestic intelligence organizations
… intelligence organizations have challenges in information sharing have resulted in incomplete information. Since 2001 state and local governments in the United States have formed information sharing hubs called fusion centers which request information from peer fusion centers as well as sharing …
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Essays in Health Economics
This dissertation comprises three essays in health economics. The first paper studies how imperfect electronic health record (EHR) system compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperability between …
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Cancer reporting: timeliness analysis and process reengineering
… cancer cases at the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Cancer Registry, 2- identify the perceived barriers and facilitators to timely reporting, and 3- reengineer the current reporting process to improve turnaround time. Method: For Aim 1: Using the ISDH dataset from 2000 to 2009, we …
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Investigating kidney disease clinical epidemiology using routinely collected administrative data and proteomics
Data collected routinely during healthcare visits and additional biospecimens collected as part of cohort study activities are invaluable to better understand kidney disease epidemiology. This thesis explores the detection and characterization of acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic kidney disease …
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Feasibility, validity and utility of HIV testing data as key components of HIV case-based surveillance
… surveillance (CBS) is recommended by the World Health Organization and other global agencies, for tracking progress towards achieving the 95-95-95 targets to end the HIV epidemic. CBS involves gathering individual-level data for each person diagnosed and linking these data from multiple data …
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Systematic Exploration of Associations Between Select Neural and Dermal Diseases in a Large Healthcare Database
… especially ultra-large databases that leverage health information exchange (HIE) systems to gather data from multiple sources. Promising as this process is, there have been challenges analyzing big data in healthcare due to big data attributes, mainly regarding volume, variety, and velocity. …
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Public Health Professionals’ Prepardness and Challenges In Implementing Certified Electronic Health Records Technology
… to assess the readiness and challenges of public health professionals in implementing the Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) Technology for the Meaningful Use (MU) in eighteen Health Districts of Georgia. The aims were to observe the status of the public health information systems’ …
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An enterprise architecture evaluation of the Improving Massachusetts Post-Acute Care Transitions (IMPACT) Program
… area affecting the quality and safety of patient health care in the US'. While many Post-Acute Care (PAC) centers are Electronic Health Record (EHR) -enabled, a large majority of these centers, such as nursing home and home care, are not set up for exchange of electronic health information. …
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Using information technology to exchange health information among healthcare providers : measuring usage and understanding value
Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic exchange of health information among healthcare institutions - has been projected to hold enormous promise as an antidote to the fragmented healthcare delivery system in the United States. After decades of mostly failed attempts, we still do not …
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Characteristics and outcomes of children, adolescents and young adults on antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa, incorporating additional outcome ascertainment through linkage and tracing studies
… and either traced (Chapter 5) or linked to a health information exchange (Chapter 6). We defined tracing as the physical tracking of patients reported as LTFU using text messages, phone calls and home visits while linkage was defined as the process of linking patient unique identifiers to …
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