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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.

September 29 - October 2, 2010

Gil Kuperman, NYCLIX Board Chair and Executive Director, was on the faculty of the AMIA CMIO Boot Camp in Houston, Texas.

August 17, 2010

Gil Kuperman, NYCLIX Board Chair and Executive Director, is appointed to the board of AMIA's GHIP, a new global informatics organization formed earlier this year to develop a collaborative center that fosters informatics education, training, and skills in healthcare providers and information consumers in low-resource environments.

July, 2010

Tom Moore, NYCLIX's Technical Manager, participated in the NYeC Collaborative Care Infrastructure Work Group as part of the NYS Health IT Strategic Plan, which evaluated a number of candidate services in terms of their value to providers, their alignment with Meaningful Use and NYS policy initiatives, whether they might be provided as a public utility or market-driven service and whether they are best provided as a central or regional/distributed service.

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.

Publications

NYCLIX 2008 Annual Report

2011

Kuperman GJ. Health-information exchange: why are we doing it, and what are we doing? J Am Med Inform Assoc - 14 June 2011. [Epub ahead of print] [abstract]

Shapiro JS, Mostashari F, Hripcsak G, Soulakis N, Kuperman G. Using information exchange to improve public health. (Journal Article, In Press – Am J Public Health – anticipated publication April 2011).

2010

NYCLIX: New York HIE Life - An article by Chuck Appleby examining NYCLIX's experience building a network in the "nation's most densely populated urban area." Healthcare Informatics 2010 October;27(10):29-31. [article]

Vaidya S, Shapiro JS, Lovett P, Kuperman G. Acute coronary syndrome cohort definition: troponin versus ICD-9-CM codes. (Journal Article, In Press – Future Cardiology – anticipated publication Sept. 2010).

Genes N, Shapiro JS, Kuperman G. Health information exchange consent policy influences emergency department patient data Accessibility. ACEP 2010. [poster]

Papa AV, Shapiro JS, Genes N, Kuperman G. Impact and Perceived Valued of Clinician Training on Health Information Exchange Adoption. ACEP 2010 (accepted). [poster]

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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