ONC Challenge 2.0 Looks to Accelerate Meaningful Use Goals
Challenge 2.0 Builds on 2012 Year of Meaningful Use At the HIMSS13 annual conference this year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator…
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CMS Posts 2014 Meaningful Use Eligible Hospital Clinical Quality Measure Update
Stage 2 CQMs for Eligible Hospitals The following is a communication from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology In the final…
ONC Seeks Input on Consumer eHealth Strategy
ONC Collaborates with Cornell Univ. on Public Input The Planning Room is designed and operated by the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative(CeRI). According to the organization’s website, the…
EU and US Step Up Cooperation in eHealth and Health IT
Collaboration To Focus on International Standards and Workforce The European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and the United States…
Health IT Business News Recap – March 24, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News HIMSS13 is the conference that just keeps giving. Held earlier this month in New Orleans, the conference gave us…
ONC Issues New Whitepaper on Meaningful Use Core Measure 3
Latest Updates from ONC on HealthIT.gov The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released a new white paper giving details on Meaningful…
Non-Physician Certifications in Informatics, Health IT, and Related Areas
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Although the physician subspecialty certification has received the lion’s share of the attention when it comes…
HIE Resources for Rural Health Stakeholders
HIE resources at the National Rural Health Resource Center The National Rural Health Resource Center has made available a set of practical health information exchange…
ONC Releases Data Briefs on EHR Systems Adoption for Acute Care Hospitals
New Briefs Look at EHR Systems Adoption, Meaningful Use Among Hospitals Last Thursday the ONC released two data briefs on adoption of EHR systems and…