Welcome to the Health IT Buzz Blog, a service of HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). This blog was created to answer your questions about the nation’s transition to electronic health records and to create a conversation about the challenges and successes health care providers, physicians, practices, and organizations are experiencing as they transition from paper to electronic health records.
Latest Blog Posts
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New Innovation Challenge Will Help People with Disabilities Access Their Health Records
We are extremely excited to announce the launch of a new Investing in Innovations mobile app challenge, the “EHR Accessibility Module Challenge.”
Improving Access to Health Records
ONC’s mission includes reducing health disparities, ensuring secure and protected patient health information, and reducing health care costs. As such, we are challenging multidisciplinary teams to create and test a module or application that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access their health information stored in electronic health records (EHRs).
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How Can Health IT Lead to a More Sustainable Health Care System?
Across the country, health care providers are making significant investments to redesign care processes and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) capabilities with the goal of achieving better care, better health, and lower costs. For the American health care system as a whole, the simultaneous pursuit of all three of these aims is essential to sustaining any one of them. -
Milwaukee Area Technical College Helps 11 Health IT Students Get Hired
When Aurora Health Care—Wisconsin’s largest non-profit health care network—needed assistance with electronic health record (EHR) implementation at one of its area hospitals, it reached out to the Milwaukee Area Technical College
(MATC).
