Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHSÂ filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
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ONC Says ‘Refresh’ Their Health IT Dashboard
Dashboard.HealthIT.Gov Adds 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC’s Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs,…
ONC Revokes Certification of Two EHR Products
ONC Re-tests Two EHR Products After Complaints Filed Last week EHR certification made news when the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)…
NY Patient Portal
New York Voted on Patient Portal Design As we reported last week, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) asked New Yorkers to help shape the State’s…
CMS, ONC Report on Progress of Health IT Adoption
Record Progress to Date on Adoption of Health IT Initiatives CMS and ONC yesterday posted a joint fact sheet breaking down progress made to date…
Mostashari Defends Vendor Fee Proposal
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT The U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, outlined his ideas for a proposed vendor fee at a…
Six Senators Question Decisions to Date on Path to Health IT Adoption
Senators Seek to Re-examine CMS, ONC Decisions On Health IT Advancement Ahead of today’s Congressional hearing on Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed 2014 budget,…
Using EHRs for Health Information Exchange and Interoperability
EHR Use in Health Information Exchange The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health and Human Services (HHS) with a…
ONC Releases Evaluation of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
Brief Explores Differences on How Each Beacon Community Operates The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program funds 17 communities across…