Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 09:18
The newly revised Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to support the monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs, and research activities related to health IT.
The new Dashboard provides summary information about all ONC HITECH grant programs and detailed information on Regional Extension Centers and the Community College Consortia which serves to educate Health IT Professionals.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 11:44
On Tuesday, March 20, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) convened an all-day Consumer Innovation Challenge meeting in Chicago in order to launch the Consumer Innovation Challenge to State Health Information Exchange grant recipients. building on the momentum of the ONC Pledge Program, to increase consumers’ access to their health information. Participating HIE states are being asked to make tangible progress over the next six months to provide electronic health information to consumers and the providers that care for them.
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Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 04:28
CONNECT 3.3, the open source health information exchange software, is now generally available. This version of the open source health information exchange software is all about making the software easier for you to use today and well into the future!
CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange – both locally and at the national level. CONNECT uses Nationwide Health Information Network standards and governance to make sure that health information exchanges are compatible with other exchanges being set up throughout the country.
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 09:44
The Office of the National Coordinator has just released (March 7, 2012) a Health Affairs aper on “The Strategy for Advancing the Exchange of Health Information”.
The presentation contains a lot of information in it. I found the section on the lack of timely information on patient discharges being sent to primary care providers rather interesting.
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Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 18:22
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the next steps for providers who are using electronic health record (EHR) technology and receiving incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid. These proposed rules, from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will govern stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. If you read the report you will see that there is more emphasis on providers using “direct project” and “health information exchange” capabilities.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 17:53
Well it’s nice to hear a success story about a college grad getting a job. What’s remarkable about this story is that most hospitals refuse to hire healthcare I.T. folks unless they have years of healthcare experience and/or specific vendor experience. Most of the students that graduate from these programs do not have this experience, and though they spend a lot of time getting an education, they still face a tough time getting a job.
One of the toughest issues is getting by the robots in the human resources department that only know how to screen candidates based on “keywords” in a resume. Plus, all the lousy software, like Taleo, they are using only allows recruiters to search resumes on specific keywords. Thus, hospitals are missing a lot of good candidates due to their automated systems and their myopic… “You don’t have Epic experience” or “You don’t have any healthcare experience”. Hockey Puck I say!!!!
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 17:44
Maine is one of five states each receiving a $600,000 grant to support sharing of electronic health records among behavioral and medical health providers.
Awarded by the Center for Integrated Health Solutions, the grant will help 25 behavioral health organizations and 200 Maine providers to securely share medical records, including through the use of HealthInfoNet, the state’s electronic health information exchange, according to a press release from HealthInfoNet.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011 at 04:16
FARMINGTON, Conn. - (Business Wire) The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, today
Through the consultative review process, EHNAC evaluated UHIN in areas of privacy and security, technical performance, business practices and organizational resources as it relates to health information exchange (HIE) policies and procedures. In addition, ...
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 08:46
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2011
Contact: HHS Press Office - http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/11/20111130a.html
(202) 690-6343
Cleveland, OH —Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a report showing that doctors’ adoption of health information technology (IT) doubled in two years. HHS also announced new actions to speed the use of health IT in doctors’ offices ...
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 10:41
In this video you can learn more about the Regional Extension Center program and how RECs can help health care providers implement Electronic Health Record systems.
Most health care providers appreciate the many benefits that Electronic health records (EHRs) offer, but they may not be sure on how to get started. ONC's Regional Extension Centers (RECs) help providers make the ...
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