Dominick Mack | April 21, 2014
Health care providers are leveraging the benefits of the increasing interoperability and portability of health information to improve population health outcomes. For communities that have historically experienced disparities in care, the uptake of EHRs and other forms of health IT is good news – as long as the providers and patients in these communities have accessibility to the technology.
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Scott Purnell-Saunders | April 8, 2014
Kevin Larsen | April 3, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are leveraging emerging health IT in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to improve the quality of care available to beneficiaries. One step in helping to achieve this improvement is the regular updating of electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications.
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Dr. Doug Fridsma | March 20, 2014
As you know, measuring quality and improving quality are key parts of improving health, health care and increasing efficiency. Within the S&I Framework, the Health eDecisions (HeD) project has led the charge in accelerating standards to support clinical decision support.
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Lee Stevens | February 21, 2014
Today, we released findings on the current state of patient matching systems and programs as a part of ONC’s Patient Matching Initiative.
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