Community College Consortia How the Region A Community College Consortia Is Training Health IT Professionals
Patricia Dombrowski | June 7, 2012
In late 2009, educators in the 10 northwestern states banded together to answer the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) call for the nation’s community colleges to help train the health IT professionals needed to help providers and hospitals make the transition to adopting and meaningfully using certified electronic health records (EHRs).
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Beacon Communities Beacon Community Program’s Second Anniversary: A Story from the Field and Successes from Year 2
Christina Markle | June 4, 2012
Celebrating the second anniversary of the Beacon Community Program is about telling our stories, and reaching out to other communities as they begin their own health IT implementation. The Beacon Community Program office wants to acknowledge the on-the-ground work of Beacon Communities nationwide. If you haven’t yet personally received care from one of the many providers connected to a Beacon Community, this is what real people in the field are sharing about their experience with Beacons.
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Health Innovation Join ONC at This Year’s Health Datapalooza
Damon Davis | June 1, 2012
The Health Data Initiative Forum (HDI) is a flagship initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Open Government Plan that brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, consumers, health care professionals, data gurus, and public and private sector organizations to unleash the power of health data and innovation in ways that improve health and health care.
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Meaningful Use ONC Seeking Nominations to the Health Information Technology Standards and Policy Committees
MacKenzie Robertson | May 31, 2012
ONC is seeking nominations to the Health Information Technology Standards and Policy Committees. All nominations must be submitted by Monday, June 11, 2012. For detailed instructions for submitting applications, please refer to the Federal Register Notice.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records What to Do if You Have a Question about Your Certified EHR
Carol Bean | May 25, 2012
The ONC Certification Program staff receives comments and questions by phone and email that are related to the adoption, use, and implementation of certified EHR, as well as questions related to CMS’ Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. The standards and certification criteria are intended to ensure that certified health information technology (health IT) products perform required functions that support better health and health care for patients. Many of the comments we receive come to us as complaints that a certified EHR product is not performing all of the functions that were required for certification.
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