Kathy Kenyon | July 10, 2014
Everyone agrees that health IT safety is important. Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management is a research report that looks into the challenges faced by hospitals and ambulatory practices that implement health IT risk management interventions. The research was conducted by RAND Corporation and the ECRI Institute under contract to ONC.
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Larry Jessup | April 25, 2014
American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) face disproportionate health outcomes compared to other Americans.[1] The adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record (EHRs) technology may help to reduce this gap. Like other Americans, many of these individuals have multiple providers in multiple states and EHRs have the potential to provide reliable, consistent patient data that can follow patients wherever they get their care.
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Dominick Mack | April 21, 2014
Health care providers are leveraging the benefits of the increasing interoperability and portability of health information to improve population health outcomes. For communities that have historically experienced disparities in care, the uptake of EHRs and other forms of health IT is good news – as long as the providers and patients in these communities have accessibility to the technology.
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Scott Purnell-Saunders | April 8, 2014
The ONC Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) has undergone some significant changes over the past few years and we continue to make important upgrades to make it more responsive to the needs of the community.
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Kevin Larsen | April 3, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are leveraging emerging health IT in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to improve the quality of care available to beneficiaries. One step in helping to achieve this improvement is the regular updating of electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications.
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