Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement
We are pleased to publish Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision to Achieve Better Health and Health Care. This paper describes ONC’s vision for…
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Ebola and HIPAA: Lessons for Public Emergencies
The recent uproar over Ebola brought HIPAA in emergency situations to the forefront when it comes to what information may be shared and when. The various healthcare facilities that treated Ebola patients were constantly grilled for updates on patients as well as information relating to the movements and other activities of those patients.
Continued Good News for the Health IT Workforce
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The job and career opportunities in health information technology (HIT) continue to grow, even though…
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – October
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are…
Direct Messaging DOs and DON’Ts
New to Direct messaging? Here are some recommendations on what to do – and what not to do – with a Direct messaging address. Direct…
Six Recommendations to Achieve Interoperability Nirvana
As most organizations have now adopted EHRs, getting systems to work together is the next big challenge on the horizon. Earlier this year, the Office…
Wikipedia and Facebook for Clinical Documentation
Over the past several years I’ve written about the inadequate state of clinical documentation, which is largely unchanged since the days of Osler, (except for a bit more structure introduced by Larry Weed in the 1970s) and was created for billing/legal purposes not for care coordination.
The October Joint Meeting of the Standards and Policy Committee
The future of interoperability was discussed and endorsed by a joint meeting of the Standards and Policy Committees. We began with a preamble clearly stating that the roadmap we’re working on is a process not a finished product.
6 Interoperability Suggestions for ONC
The highly anticipated final recommendations from the JASON task force arrived on Wednesday afternoon. JASON, a group of independent scientists who advise the federal government, issued a November 2013 report to Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Agency for Health Research and Quality on the matter of interoperability.