Public Health Reporting, Direct Project, and the new ONC
Farzad Mostashari Takes Over ONC Dr. Farzad Mostashari became the new ONC this week.Secretary Sebilus announced Blumenthal’s replacement after a lot of speculation and blogger’s…
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ONC seeks comments on Stategic Plan
In 2004 the first ONC Dr. David Brailer, published the “Stategic Framework: The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Health Care“. From…
Meaningful Use Attestation for EPs: The Numbers
Meaningful Use for Attestation for EPs: The Numbers Jim Tate HITECH Act EHR Certification and Meaningful Use Expert EMRAdvocate.com Finally. We are less than two…
HIMSS11 – Who Will Replace Blumenthal?
Neil Versel Guest Columnist Want to keep things interesting at HIMSS? Just start speculating about who will replace Dr. David Blumenthal as national health IT…
HHS Awards Additional Funding to RECs
HHS Funds RECs HHS awarded $12 million in supplemental funding to RECs on February 7th to further support Critical Access and Rural Hospitals. This is…
ONC seeks comments on Stage 2 Meaningful Use
An advisory panel of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) announced it is seeking comments from the public on the initial round of recommended…
ONC Check Up – 1/7/11
The ONC has come out of the gates running already this year. Here is their first check up of the new year. Just before the…
Getting to know the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology(ONC) is the key to carrying out the HITECH Act and bring about EHR adoption along…
Two comment deadlines on Thursday
If you have nothing to do in the next couple of days the ONC would like to hear from you. ONC seeks comments on Standards…