Laurance Stuntz | September 17, 2014
Leads to Increased Cancer Screening and Better Diabetes Management
The nation’s 62 Regional Extension Centers (RECs) have helped hundreds of thousands of health care providers, doctors, health clinics, and small rural hospitals across the nation learn the best practices for implementing and using electronic health records, or EHRs. Working closely with partners in their cities and towns, RECs are helping drive innovation by assisting healthcare providers to spur practice transformation and provide better health care to their patients.
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Rachel Abbey | September 16, 2014
In late 2013, three key health IT issues came to light in the Commonwealth of Virginia resulting in a synergistic partnership between public and private health care entities that now uses ConnectVirginia, Virginia’s Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), for public health reporting.
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Mat Kendall | January 22, 2014
Healthcare providers are a diverse group. Solutions that work for a critical access hospital will probably not work for a small practice, and that’s ok. What is important is that the various solutions to help you implement health IT will work in your practice setting.
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Jodi G. Daniel | December 19, 2013
Last year, in a blog post by former National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, we announced a number of activities to promote a series of activities as part of a non-regulatory approach to governance of the nationwide health information network. The activities were based on feedback and input we received from a wide range of stakeholders through a request for information on governance. The public comments urged ONC not to issue regulations but to listen, learn,
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Jacob Reider | December 6, 2013
New Data Shows Rapid Adoption of EHRs; Announcements of 2015 Policies
Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – which included the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs – was signed into law, the nation has seen unprecedented growth in the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Between 2009 and 2012, EHR adoption nearly doubled among physicians and more than tripled among hospitals. Every month, thousands of providers join the ranks of hospitals and professionals that have adopted or are meaningfully using EHRs.
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