Beacon Communities, EHR Case Studies What We Can Learn from the Beacon Communities on Their First Birthday?
Aaron McKethan | May 13, 2011
A year has passed since 17 diverse communities nationwide were notified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) that they would receive Beacon Community awards. These critical resources empowered the Beacon Community Awardees (“the Beacons”) to build and strengthen their local health IT capacity, use health IT in innovative ways to improve the efficiency and quality of care they can provide their patients, and identify and disseminate these innovations and lessons-learned to others.
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From the ASTP Desk, University-Based Training UBT Program: Preparing the Health IT Leaders of Tomorrow, Today
Alicia Morton | May 12, 2011
The modernization of health care through information technology calls for a much larger workforce than the one we currently have that will be required to help providers and hospitals make meaningful use of health information technology (health IT) including electronic health records (EHRs). In fact, there is a projected shortfall of approximately 51,000 qualified health IT workers over the next four years.
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From the ASTP Desk E-Prescribing and Standards for E-Prior Authorization
Dr. Doug Fridsma | May 2, 2011
Recently, colleagues have raised questions about pending state legislation related to electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) and in particular the concept of electronic prior authorization (ePA) for medications. We thought it would be helpful to discuss what we know about the current state of e-prescribing and ePA. E-prescribing provides significant advantages in contrast to its paper analog. Coupled with other complementary technologies, such as drug-drug interaction checking, e-prescribing can improve patient safety, increase prescribing accuracy and efficiency, and lower costs by notifying providers of generic or preferred drug list alternatives.
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Community College Consortia, From the ASTP Desk First Community College Consortia Health IT Professionals Graduate!
Chitra Mohla | April 27, 2011
My most heart-felt congratulations to 2011’s first graduates of ONC’s national Community College Consortia Health IT workforce training program!
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Community College Consortia, From the ASTP Desk Getting to Know Your Community College Consortium: Part 5, Region E
Dr. Gretchen LeFever | April 20, 2011
As part of a series on the Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Professionals Program, this blog post highlights the activities and accomplishments of the students and community colleges in Region E.
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