HRSA announced nearly $75 million to support health care services in rural America. Funding will launch new opioid treatment and recovery services in rural communities, strengthen maternal health care in the South, and help rural hospitals stay open.
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From the Health IT Buzz Blog – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has released the final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.
By Anthony Murray – The HL7® FHIR® standard is the accepted standard for exchanging healthcare information, regardless of how or where the information is stored. By enabling secure access to both clinical and administrative data, FHIR ensures that healthcare providers can access the information they need to deliver optimal patient care.
By Micky Tripathi – Our country has made tremendous strides and invested billions of private and public dollars in establishing the digital future of the health care system. We are thus highly concerned about ongoing and recent reports that we have received about potential violations of…
By Elise Sweeney Anthony & Aisha Hasan – In the dynamic landscape of global health, one principle stands out as a common thread across countries: the importance of individual engagement. Increasingly recognized for its transformative impact on individual health outcomes, individual engagement is a concept that…
Any clinician, group, subgroup, virtual group, or APM Entity that wasn’t able to submit their MIPS data solely because of the Change Healthcare cyberattack can request reweighting now through October 11, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.
By Avinash Shanbhag & Adam Wong – The draft action plan serves as a single resource for federal agencies and anyone else in the health IT community looking for the FHIR-based capabilities being used today by the federal government. Feedback on the action plan is being accepted through Nov. 25.
LEAP in Health IT awardees seek to create methods and tools to improve care delivery, advance research capabilities, and address emerging challenges related to interoperable health IT.
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