ONC Initiative Looks to Identify Uses of EHR Interoperability
EHR Interoperability: The Structured Data Capture Initiative Dr. Doug Fridsma / Chief Science Officer and Director, Office of Science & Technology .. Last week, we kicked-off…
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Online Tool Docket Wrench Tracks Health IT Policy Influencers
Docket Wrench Monitors Comments Across Federal Agencies The Sunlight Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve transparency and access to government information…
AMIA Paper Looks to Reduce EHR-Related Medical Errors
AMIA Position Paper Makes 10 Recommendations for Improving EHR Usability The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is a non-profit membership and scientific association providing leadership…
CHIME Raises Concerns Over CQM Reporting Harmonization
CHIME Says Technology, Workflow Burdens Impacting Reporting The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of…
The Patient Experience Through Health IT at HIMSS 13
HIMSS Conference – Health IT at the Right Time, Right Place We are now less than six weeks away to the start of the HIMSS…
ONC to Host Joint Hearing on Health Information Exchange
HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees Hold Hearing Tomorrow Tomorrow, January 29, 2013, the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee will…
The Learning Healthcare System and Evidence-Based Medicine
Implementing the Learning Healthcare System Can Be Facilitated Using the Principles of Evidence-Based Medicine William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The enthusiasm…
HIPAA Omnibus Ushers In Compliance Changes and Challenges
HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule Brings Sweeping Changes It has been ten days since the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights…
New ICD-10 Survey Will Measure Industry Progress
WEDI’s ICD-10 Survey to measure progress towards 2014 compliance date The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by…