From the ASTP Desk Developing a Shared, Nationwide Roadmap for Interoperability
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | August 6, 2014
When we issued our interoperability vision paper, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure, in June, and the HHS Principles and Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange last year, we promised that the journey would be collaborative. I am pleased to say we are delivering on this promise and launching a new, interactive community on www.healthit.gov/interoperability-community.
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FACA, Federal Advisory Committees New Health IT Policy and Standards Committees’ Workgroups Help ONC Achieve Goals
Jodi G. Daniel | August 4, 2014
As part of our efforts to streamline the work of the Federal Advisory Committees (FACAs) (the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) and Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC)) and their workgroups, we have been taking steps to make sure that their work aligns with our strategic direction and our policy priorities.
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Health Innovation ONC Launches Challenge to Improve Blood Pressure Control Using Health IT
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | July 30, 2014
Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. To combat these threats, the Department of Health and Human Services (co-led by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS]) has joined with private and non-profit organizations such as the American Heart Association, American Pharmacists Association and the YMCA, to launch Million Hearts®, a national initiative to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Promoting Patient Safety by Managing Health IT Risks
Kathy Kenyon | July 10, 2014
Everyone agrees that health IT safety is important. Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management is a research report that looks into the challenges faced by hospitals and ambulatory practices that implement health IT risk management interventions. The research was conducted by RAND Corporation and the ECRI Institute under contract to ONC.
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Health Information Exchange Critical Access Hospitals Report Challenges, Yet Forge Ahead with Advanced Health IT Capabilities
Leila Samy | July 8, 2014
Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), some with a census of fewer than 10 patients, are the smallest of the small rural hospitals. In some regions, such as frontier areas, a CAH may be the only local health care provider serving an area the width of the state of Rhode Island! CAHs are small, geographically isolated and have limited resources.
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