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November 13-17, 2010

Gil Kuperman, NYCLIX Board Chair and Executive Director, named the Scientific Program Committee Chair for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium to be held in Washington, DC.

July 23, 2010

Event - Gil Kuperman, NYCLIX Board Chair and Executive Director, is giving a Distinguished Lecture at the Summer Institute for Nursing Informatics (SINI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on “The Role of Interoperability in Meaningful Use”.

May 13, 2010

Event - NYCLIX joins the New York eHealth Collaborative and NYC REACH at the New York City Meaningful Use Summit in Brooklyn, NY, providing direct information on the mechanism for connecting health care practices to regional health information networks.

April 30, 2010

Following the closure of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center, one of NYCLIX's founding members, patient data from this institution is preserved in NYCLIX.
As an active participant in NYCLIX, St Vincent’s patient data was included in the Health Information Exchange since early 2009. NYCLIX has arranged to keep this data online so that healthcare providers at other locations, with the patient’s permission, can have real time access to their clinical data from St Vincent's.

April 28, 2010

Event - Tom Moore, NYCLIX's Technical Manager, participates in the HIE/Health System Roundtable Discussion at the New York Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Program.

April 1, 2010

Event - Tom Moore, NYCLIX's Technical Manager, presents an Overview of Regional Health Information Exchanges (RHIOs) at the New York Behavioral Health Informatics Conference.

March 31, 2010

Event - Jason Shapiro, MD, Chair of NYCLIX's Clinical Advisory Group, speaks at Yale University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Grand Rounds on Health Information Exchange, Biosurveillance and ED Crowding during the Spring 2009 H1N1 Outbreak in New York City.

February 2, 2010

Event - Gilad Kuperman, MD, Chairman of the NYCLIX Board, delivers keynote address at the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange Annual Meeting on Health Information Exchange in New York City: Goals for Public Health and Clinical Care.

January 13, 2010

Health Information Networks and Drive-Through Flu Clinic: Ways to Manage A Surge of Emergency Patients During Pandemic. Health information exchanges and drive-through influenza clinics may help emergency physicians cope with sudden surges of patients during a disease outbreak, such as the pandemic H1N1 flu of spring 2009.

November 18, 2009

Event - Jason Shapiro, MD, Chair of NYCLIX's Clinical Advisory Group, speaks at Stanford School of Medicine's Grand Rounds on Health Information Exchange, Biosurveillance and ED Crowding during the Spring 2009 H1N1 Outbreak in New York City.

July 22, 2009

Event - Gilad Kuperman, MD, Chairman of the NYCLIX Board, provides a detailed overview of how NYCLIX has turned concept into reality and into a widely integrated tool for the betterment of public health - locally, statewide and nationally: Expanding the Value of HIE to Support Public Health: a NYCLIX Case Study (webinar). In an era when most HIEs or RHIOs are struggling with issues of connectivity and governance, the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX) provides a clear example of the promise fully functional HIEs can bring to public health. View webinar (free registration required)...

July 21, 2009

NYCLIX, MedPlus launch HIE in New York City - Healthcare IT News

Publications

NYCLIX 2008 Annual Report

2010

Gilad J Kuperman, Jeffrey S Blair, Richard A Franck, Savithri Devaraj, Alexander F H Low, for the NHIN Trial Implementations Core Services Content Working Group. Developing data content specifications for the Nationwide Health Information Network Trial Implementations. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2010;17:6–12. [abstract] [full text]

Shapiro JS, Genes N, Kuperman G, Chason K, The New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX) Clinical Advisory Committee H1N1 Working Group, Richardson LD. Health Information Exchange, Biosurveillance Efforts and Emergency Department Crowding during the Spring 2009 H1N1 Outbreak in New York City. Annals of Emergency Medicine - 18 January 2010. [abstract] [article]

2009

Vaidya S, Kuperman G, Lovett P, Shapiro JS. Using Troponin Results from a Clinical Data Warehouse for Evaluating the Impact of Health Information Exchange on Acute Coronary Syndrome Rule-Out Patients is a Sensitive and Specific Method for Cohort Identification. Presented Spring AMIA 2009.

Shapiro JS, Bartley J, Kuperman G. Initial Experience with Opt-in Consent at the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX). AMIA 2009.

2008

Shapiro JS, Vaidya S, Kuperman, G. Preparing for the Evaluation of Health Information Exchange. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2008. [abstract]

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