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EHR Case Studies ONC Beacon Communities Lead the Charge
Dr. David Blumenthal | May 5, 2010
Across the nation, in communities large and small, health information technology (health IT) innovators are boldly leading the way toward the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Yesterday, we awarded $220 million in Beacon Community cooperative agreements to 15 trailblazing community consortiums that will demonstrate how the meaningful use of electronic health records can serve as a critical foundation for achieving measurable improvement in the quality and efficiency of health care in the United States.
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Meaningful Use Why Be a Meaningful User?
Dr. David Blumenthal | April 27, 2010
As I write, physicians throughout the United States are deciding whether to become meaningful users of electronic health records by 2011 when Medicare and Medicaid start making extra payments to meaningful users. For some the decision may be pretty simple. Almost 200,000 doctors already have adopted EHRs and are using them at a basic or sophisticated level. For these physicians, the journey to meaningful use, and its financial and clinical rewards, may be comparatively short. Many other doctors,
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Community College Consortia, Competency Exam Program, Curriculum Development Centers, From the ONC Desk, University-Based Training Building the Health IT Workforce
Dr. Charles Friedman | April 7, 2010
We frequently talk about health IT with an emphasis on the technology. But at the heart of the transformation of our health system, it’s really all about people. Above all, it’s about improving care for all Americans.
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From the ONC Desk The Strategic Approach to Health IT Implementation
Dr. David Blumenthal | April 5, 2010
In June of 2008, ONC published the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan — a roadmap for the implementation of nationwide health IT. We need to update the plan to take into account progress made toward the HITECH vision and new opportunities and challenges that may have arisen.
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Health Innovation, SHARP Health IT Challenges and the Future of Healthcare
Dr. Charles Friedman | April 2, 2010
Getting health IT “right” is difficult. Thousands of brilliant, creative and industrious people around the world have been working for several decades to realize the vision of making the technology a companion to care providers and patients, helping them make better decisions in support of better health.
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