Fadesola Adetosoye | November 15, 2013
Being a caregiver is hard, but health IT can help caregivers manage a loved one’s care. From tracking multiple medications to having all your health information in one place, health IT and new mobile technology are proving to be valuable resources to patients and people like me, those of us who take care of a loved one.
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Jennifer Frazier | November 14, 2013
Connecting for Impact: Integrating Health IT and PDMPs to improve patient care and fight the prescription drug abuse epidemic
ONC pilot projects prove that health IT can improve clinicians’ access to important clinical resources like Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which are data sources doctors and other providers can use to help fight the prescription drug abuse epidemic.
Carol Bean | November 6, 2013
ONC’s Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) is the place where one can find the complete list of the health IT products that have been certified by ONC’s authorized certification bodies and accredited testing labs (ACBs and ATLs).
During of the recent government shutdown, we were not able to process or post new products on the site. This meant that access to site, product lookup, CMS EHR Cert ID generation, and other automated functions continued to work,
Kevin Larsen | October 31, 2013
We are taking a page from manufacturers’ development play books as we seek input from the public on new draft clinical quality measures (CQMs).
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Amy Helwig | October 29, 2013
As the implementation of Meaningful Use Stage 2 gets underway, now is a good time to take a closer look at some of the ways the transition to ICD-10 will support better health care across the nation. One piece of the ONC 2014 Standards and Certification regulation that deserves a closer look is the requirement that certified electronic health record (EHR) technology use the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) to represent patient problems,
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