HHS Reports Providers’ Use of Health IT Doubles Since 2012
More than half of America’s doctors have adopted electronic health records HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than half of all doctors and…
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Beacon Community Hosts Videocast Tomorrow on Using Health IT to Improve Healthcare
The Beacon Community Experience: Illuminating the Path Forward Lessons from the field: Using health IT to improve health The Beacon Community Program, Videocast: Wed, May 22,…
WEDI Seeks Participants for New 2013 Workgroups
Selects Co-Chairs New 2013 WEDI Report Workgroups The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
Universal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor A recent blog posting calls for a “universal EMR” for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example…
Deloitte Survey Shows Physicians Using EHRs in Stage 1 Meaningful Use Satisfied
Stage 1 Meaningful Use of EHR Brings Savings in e-Prescribing, Better Patient Communication The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions is the health services research division…
FAQs for Navigating IT Adoption
Health IT Adoption FAQs Resources Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are a good resource when you find that question you were looking for. There are several…
AMA Board Issues Report Saying Moving Directly to ICD-11 Not an Option
Moving Directly to ICD-11 Fraught with Pitfalls The American Medical Association has a released a report from its Board of Trustees voicing opinion that skipping…
Workforce Group of the ONC Health IT Policy Committee Makes Its Recommendations
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor For the last nine months, I have had the opportunity to be part of a workgroup of…
ONC Data Brief Looks at RECs Support of PAs, NPs in EHR Adoption
EHR Adoption Progress for PAs and NPs Last week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a data brief on how…