Electronic Health & Medical Records Patient matching findings released
Lee Stevens | February 21, 2014
Today, we released findings on the current state of patient matching systems and programs as a part of ONC’s Patient Matching Initiative.
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State HIE Children’s Medical Center Dallas Enables True Data Liberation for Patients
Lee Stevens | February 19, 2014
Children’s Medical Center Dallas is among the first hospitals in the U.S. to implement true, untethered export of patient health data to a Personal Health Record (PHR) – one of the many benefits of health IT. Over a year in planning, and in partnership with Microsoft Health Vault and Verizon, and supported by ONC, Children’s is now exporting patient health data for patients undergoing treatment for Sickle Cell Disease to their PHRs, and they are expanding the program to other care specialties including cardiac care.
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From the ASTP Desk HITECH Turns 5
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | February 19, 2014
This week marks a major milestone in our journey towards adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records. As we work toward the secure, private and meaningful exchange of interoperable health information across the continuum of care, the law that made much of this possible turns five. We are celebrating the five-year anniversary of the passage of the Health Information Technology and Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) as part of the American Recovery and Revitalization Act.
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Regional Extension Centers RECs surpassed their goals to increase EHR adoption
Kimberly Lynch | February 13, 2014
Happy Birthday RECs!
This month marks the 4th birthday of the Regional Extension Center (REC) Program, and what a four years it’s been! We thought we’d take this chance to talk about some of the accomplishments that REC’s achieved in the past few years, and how their partnership with providers continues in leveraging health IT to improve care.
Electronic Health & Medical Records 2014 Edition EHR Certification Includes New Transparency Requirements
Steven Posnack | February 11, 2014
ONC’s 2014 Edition EHR Certification Criteria define the requirements that EHR technology must meet in order to be used by eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals (EHs), and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. In addition to these criteria, ONC made some policy changes to the HIT Certification Program.
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