Distributed Information Services
December 13, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
“Health information exchange,” “regional health information organization,” “accountable care,” and “meaningful use” are all ideas coming from healthcare reform that are now taking root from grants under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. This piece describes one example, an HIE in eastern Connecticut that uses a cloud-based information system that’s open to all physicians, nursing homes, rehab centers, home health agencies, and competing hospitals in that area. Without saying as much, this example also represents the hospital of the future-not as a brick and glass building, but as a distributed information services provider working nationally somewhat like a cell-phone system. MORE