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January 2010

EHRs Not Living Up to Policymakers' Vision for Care Coordination

The [Journal of General Internal Medicine] study found that commercial ambulatory care EHRs can facilitate care coordination within a practice by making data available at the point of care but that the systems are less useful for exchanging information across different practices and health care settings ...

... emphasis in commercial EHR design to support billing documentation rather than clinical management.
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2009

December 2009

$600 million in stimulus money ... towards improving community health centers

[S]tarting today, we're making $88 million in funding available for centers to adopt new health information technology systems to manage their administrative and financial matters and transfer old paper files to electronic medical records. ...

... we know that when it comes to health care, the people we serve deserve better.
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November 2009

Hospitals Experiment with Disease Management Tools

Hospitals and health systems are beginning to carefully craft care plans for patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, depression, heart disease, lung disease and cancer that seek to engage the patient in his or her own care ...

... For any health system that wants to improve chronic care, the first steps are to identify those patients who have a particular disease and to analyze gaps in care at an enterprise level. Health IT can help organizations determine “where the opportunities for improvement are, so they can get started in an effective way,” ...
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October 2009

New Effort For Diabetics To Preserve Their Vision

Diabetes is the main cause of blindness in adults. But if you are uninsured or low income, getting an eye exam and paying for it may be impossible. Thanks to a professor at UC Berkeley, there is a solution.
Read more . . . Tracks Interfaces with EyePACS!

February 2009

An Unprecedented Opportunity:

Using Federal Stimulus Funds to Advance Health IT in California
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2008

December 2008

Tools for Clinics:

Four Health Centers Use Chronic Disease Management Systems
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October 2008

Request for Proposals: Better Ideas for Chronic Care -- Developing Community Partnerships

Proposals Due Friday, December 12, 2008.
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September 2008

Health-record startup gains key backing

Santa Rosa’s i2i Systems secures 33 new clinics under statewide initiative.
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L.A. community clinics win health IT grants

The L.A. Care Health Plan has awarded $2 million through its HIT initiative to nine community clinics to implement health IT systems.
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June 2008

Janice Nicholson has recently been honored

by the North Bay Business Journal. Janice received the "2008 Women in Business" Award for Women in Technology!
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Better Chronic Disease Care Through Technology: Health Care Foundations Unveil $4.5 Million Program

Disease registries can help safety-net clinics ensure needed care. Read more . . .

March 2008

CHCF leads the way to better chronic disease care through funding systems like i2iTracks

“Grants will subsidize up to 50% of the costs of acquiring chronic disease management software or a disease registry tool, plus an additional 20% of that amount up to a total of $40,000 for implementing a quality improvement program. Grants will be made to clinics and consortia to promote quality improvement…” Read more . . .

Clinical IT Can Boost Chronic Disease Care, Providers Say

“Clinical IT can help boost patient care, reduce costs and expedite clinical studies, health care providers said at a conference on the challenges of treating patients with chronic illnesses in Washington, D.C.” Read more . . .

Electronic Health Records versus Chronic Disease Management Systems: A Quick Comparison

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2007

October 2007

Chronic Disease Fight Could Save Billions

Chronic diseases cost the nation's economy more than $1 trillion a year in lost productivity, and the amount could jump to about $6 trillion by mid-century, according to a report released Tuesday. Read more . . .

July 2007

Health Information Technology for Improving Quality of Care in Primary Care Settings

Health information technology (Health IT) has the potential to enable better care for patients, and to help clinicians achieve continual improvements in the quality of care in primary care settings. Read more . . .

May 2007

Clinics pilot Primary Care Renewal projects.

Leading the way toward transforming primary care delivery, CareOregon is partnering with several provider clinics in piloting the “medical home” primary care model. Read more . . .

AHRQ issues guide for using patient registries to evaluate treatments.

The Agency for Healthcare Research has funded five pilot projects across and Quality today released a handbook to help researchers and others use patient registries to evaluate the effectiveness of health care treatments. Read more . . .

2006

November 2006

ELINCS Pilot implementation status report.

The California HealthCare Foundation has funded five pilot projects across California to implement ELINCS v1.0 in live clinical settings. Read more . . .

September 2006

California Health Care Foundation Publishes Conference Highlights – "Chronic Disease Care: Better Ideas for Solving Real World Problems"

i2i Systems, Inc. was invited to the conference to demonstrate i2iTracks (MediTracks) to several hundred clinicians, health plan administrators, payers and health IT specialists who were invited to this networking conference. Read more . . .

Spring 2006

Disease Management Registry Enhances Health Care Delivery to Patients

Virginia Garcia has implemented MediTracks, a disease management and registry tracking system.
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February 2006

ELINCS Contract Awarded to i2i Systems, Inc.

The EHR/CDMS-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards (ELINCS) project is developing a national standard for the delivery of real-time laboratory results from a lab’s information system to an electronic health record or Chronic Disease Management System. Read more . . .

January 2006

Clinical Systems Learning Community (CSLC) Partnership Announced

The CSLC is a California statewide project funded by the Tides Foundation Community Clinic Initiative. This year-long project is a joint collaboration between 23 health centers, CCI-TIDES, Object Health, Full Circle Projects, and i2i Systems with a clearly stated vision and specific goals that requires concise communication between all parties. The 23 CHCs have a primary goal of using i2iTracks software to collect and track data for a common measure set. i2i Systems has developed a customized report to meet the reporting needs of the project participants. Read More ...