Local Implementation Support, Rural Health Creative Solutions to Expand Iowa’s Rural Health IT Funding
Leila Samy | June 28, 2013
Earlier this month, the USDA Rural Development Iowa State Office, the Iowa Regional Health IT Extension Center (REC) and the Iowa State Office of Rural Health convened the first Iowa Rural Health IT Forum to launch a pilot project designed to expand funding for rural health IT infrastructure to support Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and rural hospitals in Iowa. This workshop, planned to be held annually, targeted a group of Iowa CAHs and rural hospitals to help them coordinate funding and financing opportunities for rural health IT infrastructure that could help with the adoption of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology and associated system and facility improvements.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records, Meaningful Use Crowd-sourcing, Crowd-voting, and Co-designing with Patients
Rebecca Mitchell Coelius | June 12, 2013
Those of us in ONC’s Division of Science and Innovation are excited to announce the Blue Button Co-Design Challenge. We want to use this challenge to amplify the voices of patients and caregivers across the country with stories to tell and problems that can be solved by access to their clinical and financial health data. Our hope is that providers, data holders, and health IT entrepreneurs hear the message loud and clear; patients need access to this data,
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Regional Extension Centers Medicaid HITECH Conference: Regional Extension Centers Drive Meaningful Use
Kimberly Lynch | June 6, 2013
Recently we announced an important healthcare milestone – more than 50% of eligible professionals and nearly 80% of hospitals nationwide have adopted or are meaningfully using EHRs.
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From the ASTP Desk New ONC Resource Supports Consolidated CDA Standards Implementation
Dr. Doug Fridsma | June 5, 2013
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; and working together is success. – Henry Ford
Since the launch of the Stage 2 Certification program, ONC has been actively listening to the buzz among implementers as EHR vendors strive to update their systems to conform to the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (Consolidated CDA) standard in order to meet the transition of care objective.
Health Information Exchange Guest Blog: PCORI’s Big Idea for Big Data
Joe Selby | May 31, 2013
Talk about “Big Data” is common lately, especially in healthcare. After all, there are few fields where more data are collected and consulted on a daily basis—and where there is such widespread agreement that the information isn’t being used as well as it could be to improve outcomes.Many have tackled this challenge. But given all of the complex issues faced daily by patients and those who care for them, much more remains to be done.
Many of us recognize that,