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Health IT Advances Precision Medicine
Jon White | April 20, 2021
Precision medicine creates treatment and prevention strategies that meet patient needs by considering individual variability in their genome, environment, and lifestyle. While precision medicine can revolutionize health care, it requires access to an unprecedented volume and variety of data, and an infrastructure that rapidly brings new discoveries to bear. Recently, we published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that describes health IT’s vital role in precision medicine based on key insights from a series of ONC projects supporting the Precision Medicine Initiative.
Read Full Post.Showing the Way to Useful Health IT through Human Factors and Ergonomics
Jon White | December 17, 2020
For health IT to benefit health and healthcare, it must be useable by – and useful to – patients and clinicians. This is precisely where the discipline of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) serves as an essential foundation for the development, implementation, and use of high-quality health information systems and practices. HFE improves overall performance through study of interactions among humans and other elements of a system.
Read Full Post.NIH and ONC Launch the Sync for Science (S4S) Pilot: Enabling Individual Health Data Access and Donation
Jon White | March 21, 2016
S4S pilots are coming!
On February 25, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), announced the launch of Sync for Science (S4S), a pilot to allow individuals to access their health data and send it to researchers in support of the goals of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). Individual data donation will be a key component of the PMI Cohort Program,
Do you have a complaint about your Electronic Health Record? ONC has a new tool that might help
Jon White | September 16, 2015
Ever have a complaint about the inability to share electronic health information and didn’t know where to turn? Have you ever needed to tell someone about your concerns with your certified health IT product, such as an electronic health record (EHR) and didn’t know where to go?
Today, ONC launched www.healthit.gov/healthitcomplaints to address these concerns and be the single point of entry for you to report problems or complaints about your health IT product.
Health IT Standards Committee and Task Forces
Jon White | May 20, 2015
Spring has arrived in Washington and it is the season of change. In our ongoing pursuit of agile and effective public service, we turn our attention today to how we get timely and effective public input.
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