EHR Case Studies, Electronic Health & Medical Records Helping Hypertensive Patients with Tax Day Stress and Everyday Care
Lisa-Nicole Sarnowski | April 12, 2013
Are you experiencing tax stress with tax day looming? As you know, for some patients, stress, along with other contributing factors like genetics, obesity, smoking, and diet, is one of the contributing factors towards high blood pressure (HBP), also known as hypertension.
Hypertension is a serious condition that can lead to coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, and other health problems,[i] but because many of these factors go hand-in-hand, it can be better managed through the use of electronic health records (EHRs).
From the ASTP Desk ONC’s 2014 Budget Proposal
ONC | April 12, 2013
The FY 2014 Budget for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is $78 million, $17 million above FY 2012. The Budget builds upon the investment of health information technology (IT) resources authorized in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act (as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009). It also strengthens ONC’s expertise on activities related to ONC’s core mission including adoption and meaningful use;
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Health Innovation Health Datapalooza to Launch New Code-a-thon at Annual Conference
Bryan Sivak | April 11, 2013
Did you know 2013 marks the 4th annual Health Datapalooza national conference? It’s a conference that features the new and innovative uses of health data by:
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Health Information Exchange, State HIE HIE Bright Spots: MRSA Prevention Through Care Coordination – Part 4
Erica Galvez | April 9, 2013
Over the last several weeks we have been following Larry (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), a patient with diabetes and a history of non-compliance. Because Larry’s primary care providers either do not have EHRs or other care coordination tools or are unable to exchange information between one another, they do not know that he had been hospitalized and instructed to make important changes in his medications.
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Health Information Exchange ONC Partners with Two Health Information Exchange Governance Entities
Claudia Williams | April 4, 2013
Over the past six months ONC has launched a wide range of activities to support and learn from existing governance initiatives and advance our health information exchange (HIE) goals:
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