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Announcing the New Blue Button Toolkit
Erin Poetter Siminerio | September 15, 2014
A Single Source for Technical Standards & Guidelines to Support Patient Access to Their Health Data
Blue Button is for every person, provider, and community interested in improving care and health through information access and use. As part of the Blue Button Initiative, we are launching the Blue Button Toolkit.
Consumer Access and Use of Online Health Records: It Takes Two to Tango
Erin Poetter Siminerio | September 15, 2014
As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. An increasing number of health care providers offer new electronic tools to patients, but are patients interested in engaging online with their health records?
Read Full Post.Patients Play a Vital Role in Improving the Quality of Information in their Medical Records
Erin Poetter Siminerio | June 24, 2014
Federal incentives such as meaningful use and programs like the Blue Button Initiative are increasing patients’ electronic access to their medical records and encouraging greater engagement in their own care. That’s a good thing since medical records can contain errors . Having a “second pair of eyes” on the medical record can help improve the quality of the information that providers ultimately use to make clinical decisions. Patients, after all,
Read Full Post.New Year, New Coverage, New Possibilities
Erin Poetter Siminerio | January 10, 2014
For many of us, January is when we reflect on the past year, and think ahead to our hopes and goals for the year ahead. Every year, millions of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, and for many of us, that means resolving to improve our health. Ask your friends and family, and you’ll hear many of the same resolutions over and over again: eat better, get fitter, take better care of ourselves and our loved ones,
Read Full Post.Achieving eHealth Equity – A report from National Minority Health Month
Erin Poetter Siminerio | April 29, 2013
As part of National Minority Health Month, we’re excited to release a brief report summarizing some important conversations that have recently taken place around the issue of eHealth equity.
As background, in February, ONC helped organize a White House Summit on Achieving eHealth Equity in collaboration with the Office of Minority Health, and ZeroDivide-an organization working to use technology to reduce economic and health disparities.