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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreWe 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 advancing the use of health IT to support transformational improvement in health care quality and value.
Last week the CommonWell Alliance announced it has entered a new phase of its mission, expanding availability of its interoperability services with an eye toward nationwide expansion. Members can now reach a larger pool of providers.
eHealth Initiative announced that leaders from across the healthcare sector have committed to working together to resolve some of the most difficult challenges facing the…
Last Thursday eHealth Initiative released its initial 2020 Roadmap for transforming the health care industry through data exchange and health IT. The 2020 Roadmap Identifies the top 3 priorities as Interoperability, Clinical Motivators and Incentives, and Data Access and Use.
Here in America, we are beginning to accept the fact that our healthcare system is not sustainable as it currently stands. With an aging population and fragmented, disparate, and oftentimes redundant care, our country is wasting over $910 billion every year (Berwick & Hackbarth, April 2012) on failed care coordination, over-treatment, administrative complexity and other factors.
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…
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 of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published a 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.
In response to a statement released by the AMA leadership departures from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the ONC has clarified Dr. Karen DeSalvo will continue to work on health IT policy matters and development of the Interoperability Roadmap.