Louisiana’s Collaborative Efforts for Health IT
Louisiana Advances Health IT Initiatives New Orleans served as the host for HIMSS13 this year which gave us an opportunity to highlight and see the…
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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…
RECs move forward post HITECH money
Money Well Spent The HITECH Act authorized the Health Information Technology Extension Program and the ONC awarded 62 grants for Health Information Technology Regional Extension…
Delaware REC First to Hit Go Live EHR Target
Reaching Out with Health IT Assistance The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information technology (ONC) funded 62 Regional Extension Centers (RECs) to assist…
CalHIPSO Launches Plans for Transition After Stage 1 Meaningful Use
Health eServices Will Assiste Providers in Stage 2 Meaningful Use and Beyond The California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization (CalHIPSO) has launched Health eServices…
All the Tools in the Toolbox: How ONC Delivered Value In 2012
A recent story characterized the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as both “the federal office in charge of a massive rollout of electronic health records” as well as “an office whose primary role has been cheerleader” for health information technology. Well, which is it?
To be fair, since David Brailer’s time, the National Coordinator for Health IT has had two distinct roles:
ONC Map Tracks EHR Incentive Program Payments
HTracking EHR Incentive Program Payments The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has posted an interactive map tracking our nation’s progress…
Making Meaningful Use Sustainable
Four Core Tenets of Meaningful Use I recently attended the Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) 2012 Annual Conference in San Antonio. It was my first…
Physicians Joining Meaningful Use Vanguard (MUV) Program
MUVers are ‘Muving’ Healthcare Forward Jennifer Rathman, Wide River TEC jrathman@widerivertec.org Blog: widerivertec.wordpress.com “Although the transition to electronic health records can be challenging, I don’t…