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From the ONC Desk, Health Innovation ONC Announces “Million Hearts Challenge”
Dr. Farzad Mostashari | October 3, 2011
On Tuesday, September 27, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, as part of the Million Hearts Initiative, launched a developer’s challenge to create an application engaging consumers in improving their own cardiovascular health.
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Beacon Communities, From the ONC Desk Health 2.0 Exchange Connects Consumer Ehealth Innovators with Beacon Communities
Pierce Graham-Jones | September 26, 2011
This past weekend, the Beacon Community Program headed to the 5th Annual Health 2.0 Conference, a leading gathering of people working to leverage the power of consumer technology to drive health care improvement. As part of the proceedings, the Health 2.0 organizers hosted the first-ever “Beacon Innovation Exchange.” Over the course of an open five-hour meeting, six of the Beacon Communities met and exchanged ideas with more than 50 consumer ehealth technology companies. They had some coordination and facilitation help from three organizations who make it their job to understand this industry – Health 2.0,
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From the ONC Desk Join Query Health in Developing National Standards for Population Queries
Dr. Doug Fridsma | September 23, 2011
The focus of our nation’s health care system is to improve the health of individuals and ultimately the health of the population as a whole. In order to positively impact population health, we need to be able to evaluate and react to emerging health issues and trends at both the local and the national level. In recent years, the use of distributed queries has become a growing focus of health information technology. Instead of relying on centralized databases,
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Beacon Communities, From the ONC Desk Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest Uses Past Successes to Improve Care
Dr. Daniel Hansen | September 23, 2011
As the Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) began establishing its Beacon Community—the Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest (BCIN)–we knew at least one thing: Evidence-based clinical best practices combined with a technology-based care coordination process could help improve patient outcomes. How did we know? INHS had already achieved successes for injured workers through its Centers for Occupational Health & Education (COHE).
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From the ONC Desk ONC Launches Data Segmentation Initiative
Joy Pritts | September 19, 2011
ONC is pleased to announce the launch of the Data Segmentation Initiative (DSI) on October 5, 2011. The Initiative will build on the vision of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which recommended the development of metadata tags to be used for exchanging data across organizational structures while maintaining the privacy and security of the information.
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