ONC released new version of the Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. This is the new blueprint to improve the health IT infrastructure to help transform health care delivery, improve individual and community health and support a responsive, evolving health IT ecosystem that puts individuals at the center of care.
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By Edgar Wilson – Discussions of the benefits, potential, and future of EHRs trumpet the advance of personalized healthcare built on the intersection of patient history and genetic data. President Obama has advanced a program to integrate genomics data into both research and treatment, known as the Precision Medicine Initiative.
By Thomas A. Mason – The ONC awards more than $38 million in grant to 20 organizations from 19 states across the country to further efforts toward achieving better care, smarter spending and healthier people.
As part of the Administration’s efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people, the ONC announced twenty awardees for three health information technology (health IT) grant programs totaling about $38 million.
Healtheway announced the organization has been renamed The Sequoia Project. Healtheway and its member-led board began the rebranding process after performing a multi-month evaluation of its mission and goals for the next decade.
Calling all developers and entrepreneurs. Check out these healthcare related challenges for prize money from CHIME, HHS Idea Lab, Aetna Foundation, eHealth Initiative, and PriMed.
MeHI, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, has launched a new grant program to strengthen the collaborative technology-based connections between healthcare settings in regions across the Commonwealth.
3 Health Resources and Services Administration grants are still open for applications but deadlines are approaching next week. The grants focus on rural health assistance and programs.
By John Halamka MD – Every technology has an adoption journey. The classic Gartner hype curve travels from a Technology Trigger to the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. It often takes years before organizations reach the Slope of Enlightenment and finally achieve a Plateau of Productivity.