Peter Garrett | December 12, 2012
A “hot topic” at today’s ONC Annual Meeting is interoperability, and how interoperability can improve patient care. Two of the meeting’s panelists for the HIE and Interoperability: Sharing Information to Improve Patient Care session, have posted blog entries today with their thoughts on the subject.
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John Halamka | December 12, 2012
Today I’m speaking at the ONC annual meeting as part of panel discussing interoperability.
For years, patients, providers and payers have complained that EHRs “do not talk to each other.”
By 2014, I expect this issue to disappear. Why?
Justin Barnes | December 12, 2012
Stage 2 Exchange Milestones Not Limited to System Infrastructures
As the headlines surrounding Meaningful Use Stage 2 focus on specific interoperability tied to summary of care, information exchange in many forms is really the broader theme as Meaningful Use helps drive care coordination.
Fadesola Adetosoye | December 12, 2012
The numbers are in and meaningful use of Meaningful Use appears to be working. In Ohio, nearly half of the providers in the Cincinnati Beacon Community program have achieved meaningful use. In Maine, 83% of the patient population is electronically sharing health care information with their providers, facilitated by the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), HealthInfoNet.
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Jodi G. Daniel | November 27, 2012
See revised section below on how to submit comments.
Speak up now and help ONC’s Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) as they begin to develop meaningful use stage 3 recommendations that target a collaborative model of care with shared responsibility and accountability, and build upon previous meaningful use objectives.
