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Meaningful Use What Does it Take to Ready a Healthcare Workforce for Transformation to a Patient Centered Team-based Care Model?
Norma Morganti | September 13, 2013
That’s what we were wondering when we began the development of learning resources to support patient-centered care enabled through health IT way back in the fall of 2012.
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Consumer Engagement The Blue Button Movement: Kicking off National Health IT Week with Consumer Engagement
Lygeia Ricciardi | September 12, 2013
Next week the Department of Health & Human Services – and ONC – is helping to kick off National Health IT Week (#NHIT) with the third annual Consumer Health IT Summit: Accelerating the Blue Button Movement. Registration is full, but you can sign up for the wait list or participate virtually online. This year’s National Health IT Week Consumer Summit celebrates consumer and patient engagement in health and healthcare via health information technology. This year we’ve decided to include “Blue Button” in its title.
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Health Innovation ONC Launches Patient Matching Initiative
Lee Stevens | September 11, 2013
As part of our ongoing effort to improve patient matching across disparate systems, we are beginning a collaborative project to help identify the common denominators and best practices being used by private sector health care delivery systems and Federal agencies. By identifying and recommending standardization of the basic attributes most commonly used for patient matching, we are looking to improve patient safety, care coordination and efficiency.
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State HIE Western States Consortium Pilot of Direct Demonstrates the Power of Federal/State Coordination
John Rancourt | September 6, 2013
Health care providers in California and Oregon are now querying each others’ provider directories and sending interstate Direct messages as a result of the Western States Consortium project.
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HIT Policy Committee The path toward a risk-based regulatory framework for health IT
Jodi G. Daniel | September 5, 2013
Yesterday, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) accepted and approved recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) working group for a risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology. The working group’s recommendations suggest a scope for an IT framework, risk and innovation criteria, and approaches for avoiding regulatory duplication.
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