HIT Standards Committee and HIE Specifications
Committee seeks comments on HIE Specifications The Health IT Standards Committee is charged with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health IT on standards,…
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2011 ONC Annual Meeting
Blumenthal to Open ONC Annual Meeting Dr. David Blumenthal is back to open this year’s ONC Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 17th. The ONC Grantee…
My Interview with ONC Farzad Mostashari
ONC Mostashari at MGMA By far the highlight of my time at MGMA was my twelve minutes of one-on-one with ONC Farzad Mostashari. There is…
3rd Quarter EHR Incentive Program Status
. Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers you are about to see are all true… As of the end of September . 114,644 Eligible…
Putting the IT in Transitions ONC Event
Health Information IT directly from the ONC TODAY from 8-3 EST, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will participate in “Putting…
Patient Access to Lab Results – Coming Stages of Meaningful Use
Patient Access to Lab Results in Stage 2 or 3 Meaningful Use? Something is Happening Last week on September 12th HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proposed…
Federal Strategic Health IT Plan: 2011-2015
ONC Announces Federal Health IT Strategic Plan The ONC, along with its federal partners, announced the released of the current version of the Federal Health…
Empowering Patients to Access and Use their Health Information
Kicking off National Health IT Week, the ONC and HHS streamed its Consumer Health IT Summit live on line yesterday. Secretary Sebelius, ONC Mostashari,…
EHRs, Strategic Plans, and Homeland Security
Recovery Room 9/7/11 It has been a while since we have done a Recovery Room post. In these posts we like to highlight events that…