By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, December 14, 2007 4:30 PM

I recently attended a plenary session with an Audacious Inquiry Colleague, Edmond Magny, for the NOVA RHIO. The NOVA RHIO group has been formally meeting for the past 18 months discussing approaches to health information exchange in the Northern Virginia area and a strategy to address the inherent challenges in this kind of effort. We attended the session to get a better grasp on where in the process the NOVA group is, to understand the current participants and stakeholders at the table and to understand the current funding realities. The session began (as most do) with a 30 minute meet and greet for the attendees. This latest group had grown considerably larger (according to those with prior attendance) and signaled progress in moving the group to action. Towards the end of the meeting I spoke with Jane Woods, former Virginia Secretary of Health and member of the NOVA RHIO group, on some of the challenges she Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, October 19, 2007 7:00 AM

A collaborative project between Erickson Retirement Communities and St. Agnes Hospital has established instant patient data exchange between their respective Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, marking the first time in the United States that such a system has been developed between a hospital and a continuing care retirement provider. Audacious Inquiry led the integration team. Read More »