National Blue Button Consumer Campaign
Launching this Fall By Lygeia Ricciardi/ Director, Office of Consumer eHealth, ONC , and Simone Myrie, Public Health Analyst at ONC At the recent Health…
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Using EHRs to Help Advance Drug Development and Safety Monitoring
Collectively EHRs Represent Huge Amounts of Data By Janet Woodcock, MD, Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Not long ago, electronic health records…
Interactive Tool to Help Providers Understand 2014 CEHRT NPRM
EHR Certification Notice of Proposed Rulemaking The following is correspondence from CMS and ONC. In May 2014, CMS released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)…
A 4-Step Approach to Interoperability
Real-Time Data Must Simultaneously be Pushed and Pulled in the Right Ways By Brian Ahier, Director of standards and government affairs, and Ashish Shah, Chief…
HHS Launches Challenge to Improve Hypertension Through Health IT
ONC and Million Hearts Challenge Looking for New CDS Tools The following is a press release from HHS. In an effort to help clinical practices use…
Behavioral Health Data Exchange
Coalition of States, ONC & SAMHSA Successfully Piloted By John Rancourt/ Public Health Analyst, Office of Health Information Exchange , and H. Westley Clark, MD,…
HIE Rundown – 7/02/14
Health Information Exchange News & Announcements Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being…
Patient Engagement and Quality of Medical Records
Patients Play a Vital Role in Improving the Quality of Information in their Medical Records By Erin Poetter Siminerio/ ONC Blog Team , and Jodi…
EHR Incentive Program Status Report April 2014
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 4/30/2014 The Centers for Medicare…