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From the ONC Desk ONC Staff Tops the Agenda at HIMSS 2012
Parmeeth M.S. Atwal | February 17, 2012
Last year, the annual HIMSS conference drew record-breaking crowds with more than 30,000 people from around the country gathered to learn about the latest health information technology (health IT) and to share ideas and experiences. Electronic health records (EHRs), meaningful use, and how to use technology to improve care dominated the schedule. Presentations by ONC staff were among the best attended.
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Federal Advisory Committees Kudos to Our Federal Advisory Committees
Judy Murphy | February 8, 2012
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is very proud of the two federal advisory committees that we support: The Health IT Policy and the Health IT Standards Committees. Created by the HITECH Act to provide input on the policies and technologies needed to improve health and care, the Committees, as noted in a recent blog post by David Kibbe and Brian Klepper , are an invaluable resource.
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Health Innovation New Innovation Challenge Will Help People with Disabilities Access Their Health Records
Wil Yu | February 7, 2012
We are extremely excited to announce the launch of a new Investing in Innovations mobile app challenge, the “EHR Accessibility Module Challenge.”
Improving Access to Health Records
ONC’s mission includes reducing health disparities, ensuring secure and protected patient health information, and reducing health care costs. As such, we are challenging multidisciplinary teams to create and test a module or application that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access their health information stored in electronic health records (EHRs).
Beacon Communities How Can Health IT Lead to a More Sustainable Health Care System?
Pierce Graham-Jones | February 3, 2012
Across the country, health care providers are making significant investments to redesign care processes and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) capabilities with the goal of achieving better care, better health, and lower costs. For the American health care system as a whole, the simultaneous pursuit of all three of these aims is essential to sustaining any one of them.
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Community College Consortia, From the ONC Desk Milwaukee Area Technical College Helps 11 Health IT Students Get Hired
Chitra Mohla | January 31, 2012
When Aurora Health Care—Wisconsin’s largest non-profit health care network—needed assistance with electronic health record (EHR) implementation at one of its area hospitals, it reached out to the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC).
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