HHS Sets Goal of 50% of Physicians Using EHRs by Year End
2013 Agenda to Focus on Improving Care through Health IT Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National…
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ONC Launches Stage 2 Meaningful Use Interoperability Online Course
Stage 2 Meaningful and Interoperability Course The State HIE Program Policy Office and the Regional Extension Center Program have released Interoperability Basics, a 75 minute online…
Health IT as an Ultra Large-Scale System
Dr. Doug Fridsma / Chief Science Officer and Director, Office of Science & Technology .. This week I want to discuss a technical report that was…
ONC Releases Self-Paced Videos on Stage 2 Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use Education Module on Transitions of Care To say we’ve been impressed with what the ONC has been doing lately on the digital/interactive education…
AHIMA Testifies Before ONC On Improving Accuracy of EHR Systems
Makes Recommendations for Improving Clinical Documenation in EHR Systems American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) represents a membership of over 67,000 health information management…
Health IT Business News Recap – February 17, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News The health IT industry’s biggest event is two weeks from today. The HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held…
ONC’s First Google+ Hangout on Health IT Challenges a Success
ONC and others discuss Interoperability, Health IT Challenges Yesterday the Office of the National Coordinator hosted it’s first ever ONC Google + Hangout. Led by…
ONC Will Host Open Town Hall on HIE Governance,Interoperability
Advancing Governance of Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange…
ONC Asks for Input on Interoperability Testing Scenerio
First Draft of ONC Test Scenario Open for Comment On September 4, 2012 the ONC issued the Health Information Technology: Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification…