Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHSÂ filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
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ONC Hosts Million Hearts Webinar
Using Health IT Tools to Reduce Heart Disease and Stroke In September of 2011 HHS launched the Million Hearts®. This national initiative wants to prevent…
ONC Developer App Challenge
Apps4TotsHealth Challenge In September 2009 President Obama outlined and initiated his Strategy for American Innovation. He called on agencies to “increase their ability to promote…
ONC Says ‘Refresh’ Their Health IT Dashboard
Dashboard.HealthIT.Gov Adds 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC’s Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs,…
Health Datapalooza IV
Open Data, Innovation, and Health Datapalooza One of the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) current initiatives is the Health Data Initiative (HDI). It…
Deploying a Health IT Mobile Device Management Strategy
By Marcus LaFountain Linkedin Profile A recent Ovum study showed that almost 60% of employees bring some type of mobile device into the workplace. There…
OCR Releases Tools to Help Understand HIPAA Privacy Rule
New Tools to Educate Consumers and Providers about HIPAA Privacy and Security The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights…
The Road to Big Data Passes Through Informatics
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health…
CMS, ONC to Host Event on Billing and Coding with EHRs
Coding in an EHR Environment On Friday, May 3, CMS and ONC will hold a meeting for providers, vendors, press, and others to discuss electronic…