HHS Launches Challenge to Improve Hypertension Through Health IT
ONC and Million Hearts Challenge Looking for New CDS Tools The following is a press release from HHS. In an effort to help clinical practices use…
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Behavioral Health Data Exchange
Coalition of States, ONC & SAMHSA Successfully Piloted By John Rancourt/ Public Health Analyst, Office of Health Information Exchange , and H. Westley Clark, MD,…
HIE Rundown – 7/02/14
Health Information Exchange News & Announcements Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being…
Patient Engagement and Quality of Medical Records
Patients Play a Vital Role in Improving the Quality of Information in their Medical Records By Erin Poetter Siminerio/ ONC Blog Team , and Jodi…
EHR Incentive Program Status Report April 2014
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 4/30/2014 The Centers for Medicare…
EP Hardship Exception Applications Due July 1st
EPs Don’t Miss this Deadline for Hardship Exception Applications The following is correspondence from CMS on the EHR Incentive Programs. Are you a Medicare provider who…
June HIT Standards Committee Meeting Recap
Updates and Evaluation By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka The June HIT Standards Committee focused on an update and evaluation of the standards and interoperability…
Not Just Notes: Using the Cloud for Medical Imaging
Commonly Ordered Medical Images Shared Across Platforms By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity While we think of patient records as a collection of notes…
The Need for Direct Secure Messaging Directories
A Challenge for Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) By Andy Nieto, Health IT Strategist at DataMotion Twitter: @DataMotion Have you ever lost your cell phone and tried…