CCHIT announced that it is winding down all operations beginning immediately. All customers and business colleagues have been notified, CCHIT staff is assisting in transitions, and all work will be ended by November 14, 2014.
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In response to a statement released by the AMA leadership departures from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the ONC has clarified Dr. Karen DeSalvo will continue to work on health IT policy matters and development of the Interoperability Roadmap.
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for HHS, Karen DeSalvo, MD, is leaving the position to become Acting Assistant Secretary of Health. In her new position, DeSalvo will join the administration’s Ebola response team.
Last Thursday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the launch of Data for Health, an initiative the foundation is starting to look at how health data information can be used to help us lead healthier lives.
The federal government’s top health IT advisors made important recommendations on how public and private stakeholders should progress towards interoperability in healthcare. Leaders from the…
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. There are eight stages (0-7) that measure a hospital’s implementation and utilization of information technology applications.
Few would have predicted Drew Memorial Hospital would come out a winner in an MU audit story that made health IT headlines news four weeks ago after the hospital was audited for not properly meeting Core Measure 14.
The highly anticipated final recommendations from the JASON task force arrived on Wednesday afternoon. JASON, a group of independent scientists who advise the federal government, issued a November 2013 report to Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Agency for Health Research and Quality on the matter of interoperability.
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