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Regulatory Issues October 26, 2015

What to Expect When You’re Done Expecting ONC’s Final Rule

By Steven Posnack – I know you might be wondering, “what’s next?” now that ONC’s 2015 Edition final rule has formally published in the Federal Register. This milestone kicks off the next phase our work to implement the 2015 Edition’s regulatory requirements. Starting next week and over the next few weeks, ONC will be releasing two types of documents to immediately help jumpstart health IT development efforts to the 2015 Edition.

Analytics and Pop Health, Regulatory Issues October 19, 2015

Shining a Light on Secure Health Big Data and Digital Privacy

By Kathryn Marchesini, Helen Caton-Peters, & Lucia Savage – Through the proliferation of software applications and mobile technology, the amount of identifiable health information being collected, analyzed, and used is growing exponentially. As the volume, velocity, and variety of such information activities continue to grow,

Public Initiatives, Regulatory Issues October 15, 2015

ONC Grants $1 Million to Support HIE and Care Coordination

By Thomas A. Mason – Announcement of the names of ten community programs that will support care providers who aren’t able to receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs.

EHR Adoption, Health Innovation, Promoting Interoperability (PI) October 7, 2015

Majority of Physicians Using a Certified EHR in 2014

By Talisha Searcy – Since the enactment of the HITECH Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the number of health care providers using an electronic health record (EHR) has continued to rise, helping to build the foundation for an interoperable learning health system.

Uncategorized October 5, 2015

ONC Publishes Final Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

By Karen B. DeSalvo, Gretchen Wyatt, & Matthew Swain – Most people that use GPS navigation apps aren’t concerned with the backend development, the standards used, or whether the app is interoperable with other data sources – people just want to arrive at their destination quickly and safely.

Analytics and Pop Health, Regulatory Issues September 9, 2015

New Hospital Survey Data Show Progress Toward Interoperability

By Erica Galvez – Recent ONC analyses from a nationwide survey of non-federal acute care hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlight the near universal adoption of EHRs by hospitals and significant increases in hospitals’ electronically exchanging health information with outside providers compared to past years.

Public Initiatives August 10, 2015

Grant Funding Helps Advance Interoperable Health IT, Leverage Community Best Practices, and Train the New Workforce

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.

Health Innovation July 23, 2015

A Roadmap to Improving Health IT Safety

By Andrew Gettinger MD – As we focus on making our health care ecosystem interoperable and building a continually improving learning health system, we need to ensure health IT enables safe, high quality care. We also know that doctors, nurses, and other clinicians that are all part of the care team are frustrated by health IT systems that are not coordinated or optimized to their workflow.

Health Innovation, ONC Certification Program July 21, 2015

Open Invitation to Submit Health IT Test Tools or Procedures

By CAPT Alicia Morton & Tricia Lee Wilkins – Improving and streamlining the testing and certification of health IT has long been a goal of ONC. To that end, on June 9th we published a notice in the Federal Register that reintroduced a flexibility included in the ONC Health IT Certification Program that allows the National Coordinator to consider test procedures, test tools, and test data developed by any person or entity for approved use.

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