Health Information Exchange Health Technology and EMS: ASPR Launches Campaign to Improve Pre-Hospital Care
Kevin Horahan | March 18, 2014
Getting a complete and accurate picture of a patient’s medical history is a challenge under normal circumstances, but it is even more difficult – and even more important – in an emergency. Take, for example, a fairly common occurrence. A woman falls and breaks her arm. Someone calls 9-1-1 and an ambulance arrives. An emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic provides treatment and transports her to the emergency department (ED) where she gets an x-ray and a cast.
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Community College Consortia A Retrospective on the HITECH Workforce Development Program
William Hersh | March 10, 2014
For those of us involved in educating the workforce of health information technology (HIT) professionals and leaders, the past few years have been quite a journey. While funding for the HITECH Workforce Development Program has ended, the longer-term goal of creating the experts who develop, implement, and evaluate health IT across the health care system goes on.
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Community College Consortia Health IT Workforce Training Programs: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Chitra Mohla | March 10, 2014
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
David Riesman (1867- 1940)
Funding for the ONC Health IT Workforce Training Programs, first awarded in March 2010, ended on September 30, 2013. The goal of this program was to train a workforce that would be ready to usher in the digital information age in health care.
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Health Information Exchange Practical Playbook Merges Public Health/Primary Care Using Health IT
Brett Coughlin | March 6, 2014
Marrying public health and primary care coordination to improve population health using Health IT sounds like a no-brainer. It sounds easy, right? Maybe not, but a new initiative is bringing these three elements together in a bid to improve health, healthcare and control costs.
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Consumer Engagement Introducing the Blue Button Connector
Lygeia Ricciardi | February 24, 2014
Today at the HIMSS conference in Orlando ONC demonstrated the Blue Button Connector. This early release of the Connector website is an invitation to members of the growing Blue Button community to help to improve the website before it is more widely marketed to consumers and developers.
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