Gov’t shutdown hits HHS, ONC hard
By Tom Sullivan, Editor, Government Health IT Twitter: @GovHITEditor The resurrected phrase in Washington on Tuesday is “orderly phase-down and suspension of operations.” Midnight Monday arrived without…
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ONC to Present Update on National HIE Governance Activities
HIE Governance Progress National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private organization that works as a cooperative agreement partner of the Office of the National Coordinator for…
Mostashari Comments on Meaningful Use, Health IT Challenges
Mostashari Addresses Concerns on Stage 2 Meaningful Use Timing During a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on Wednesday, National Coordinator for Health IT…
Reaction to ONC’s Recently Released Health IT Safety Plan Mostly Positive
by Bonnie Darves, iHealthBeat Contributing Reporter, iHealthBeat Given the broad reach and potential implementation complexity of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s…
FDA Warning on Medical Devices
Q&A with Mac McMillan Mac McMillan, chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Task Force and CEO of CynergisTek answers questions for us on the…
ONC Releases New Brief on Lessons Learned from the Beacon Communities
Beacon Communities Show Progress in Using Electronic Data for Quality Measurement The ONC’s Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program funds 17 communities across the U.S. The Beacon Community Program is…
Industry Reacts to ONC Mostashari Leaving
High Praise to Outgoing ONC Chief The big news last week was the announcement of Dr. Farzad Mostashari stepping down this fall. There has been…
Accelerating Health Information Exchange
HHS Releases New Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange Back in March the HHS requested input on a series of potential policy and programmatic changes…
Data Exchange Growing through EHR Adoption
New Study Finds More Data Exchange with EHR Adoption New research, published in Health Affairs, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…