Do you have a complaint about your Electronic Health Record? ONC has a new tool that might help
Jon White | September 16, 2015
Ever have a complaint about the inability to share electronic health information and didn’t know where to turn? Have you ever needed to tell someone about your concerns with your certified health IT product, such as an electronic health record (EHR) and didn’t know where to go?
Today, ONC launched www.healthit.gov/healthitcomplaints to address these concerns and be the single point of entry for you to report problems or complaints about your health IT product.
Health Information Exchange New Hospital Survey Data Show Progress Toward Interoperability
Erica Galvez | August 13, 2015
A snapshot of health information exchange among America’s hospitals shows that 41 percent routinely are able to access important health information about a patient during treatment from sources outside their hospital according to recent ONC analysis of 2014 data from the AHA.
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From the ASTP Desk ONC Grant Funding Opportunities Help Advance Interoperable Health IT, Leverage Community Best Practices and Train the New Health IT Workforce
Thomas A. Mason | July 28, 2015
The grants will fund community and state-based initiatives that help advance health information sharing, enable community members to work together to improve population health, improve the interoperability of health IT systems and continue efforts to train and nurture the health IT workforce.
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Health IT Safety A Roadmap to Improving Health IT Safety
Andrew Gettinger | July 17, 2015
Today, we took another important step in the national effort to help reduce possible health IT-related adverse events, or errors, with the release of the Health IT Safety Center Roadmap.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Open Invitation to Submit Health IT Test Tools or Procedures
Alicia Morton | July 6, 2015
Improving and streamlining the testing and certification of health IT has long been a goal of ONC. To that end, on June 9th we published a notice in the Federal Register that reintroduced a flexibility included in the ONC Health IT Certification Program that allows the National Coordinator to consider test procedures, test tools, and test data developed by any person or entity for approved use.
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