West Virginia
Health Information Network

100 Dee Drive
Charleston, WV 25311

304.558.4503 (Phone)
304.558.2734 (Fax)

Hospitals

Minimize development of costly interfaces
Low cost way to exchange data outside the hospital system through the WVHIN hub
Ability to make hospital tools available through the WVHIN portal even when outside the integrated network
Receipt of public health alerts
Improve coordination of care
Lower costs for uninsured, Medicaid, and self-insured patients
Enable more efficient management of patient load in Emergency Departments

On July 13, 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final Meaningful Use regulations. The final rule can be found on the Federal Register.

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)/Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee, and a practicing Emergency Physician. In his blog, Dr. Halamka records his experiences with infrastructure, applications, policies, management, and governance as well as muse on such topics such as standardizing data in healthcare, etc.