Interoperability Interoperability to help achieve better care, smarter spending, and healthier people
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | January 30, 2015
Today, we issued Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0 (“Roadmap”). This Roadmap reflects nearly a year of collaborative effort with extensive input from the public and private sectors and is a call to action to see that we can unlock digital health information and see that it can be appropriately used when and where it matters most, to who matters most – the people of this nation.
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Consumer Engagement The Digital Consumer: How Patient Generated Health Data and Health IT Can Help Improve Care
Michael Wittie | January 6, 2015
Data rests at the heart of health IT’s capacity to help improve care quality and health outcomes: standards-based, interoperable electronic systems make it possible to access, share, use and re-use information that was once locked in paper charts kept by individual providers. As more and more consumers engage and adopt mobile health technologies to help them better track their daily health and wellbeing, it will be increasingly important to consider how those data can flow seamlessly from consumers to providers – and back – to help everyone achieve better health.
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Health Information Exchange The Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances is on the rise
Tricia Lee Rolle | December 31, 2014
Over the past couple of years, EPCS – the electronic prescribing of controlled substances – has increased dramatically. This has potential benefits for both patients and health care system costs.
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Health Information Exchange Health Information Exchange Lessons from Six States
Matthew Swain | December 29, 2014
Today, we released a case study from the evaluation of the HITECH-funded State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program that shows how states play a central role in leadership, coordination, collaboration, policy development, and identifying local health IT needs and gaps.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Learning About Health IT-Related Adverse Events from Patient Safety Organizations
Kathy Kenyon | December 22, 2014
Today ONC posted a final summary report on Health Information Technology Adverse Event Reporting: Analysis of Two Databases.
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