Health Innovation Using Health IT to Integrate Behavioral Health and Primary Care Information
Jodi G. Daniel | September 16, 2013
This is one in a series of blog posts to coincide with National Health IT Week. To follow the conversation on Twitter, look for the #NHITweek hashtag.
Health IT can support better clinical decisions and coordinated care for patients. As a key factor in health and health outcomes, it is critical to support health IT adoption and use by behavioral health providers and to use health IT to support integration of behavioral health and primary care information.
Consumer Engagement Help Us Put Blue Button on the Map
Peter Garrett | September 16, 2013
How do we talk about the Blue Button Initiative in a way that really gets the attention of those who don’t already know about it or haven’t thought about its benefits?
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EHR Case Studies EHR Certification: By the Numbers
Steven Posnack | September 13, 2013
We’ve been getting a number of questions about EHR vendor readiness and the 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria. Given the increased interest, I thought now would be a good time to answer some of those questions by:
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Meaningful Use What Does it Take to Ready a Healthcare Workforce for Transformation to a Patient Centered Team-based Care Model?
Norma Morganti | September 13, 2013
That’s what we were wondering when we began the development of learning resources to support patient-centered care enabled through health IT way back in the fall of 2012.
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Consumer Engagement The Blue Button Movement: Kicking off National Health IT Week with Consumer Engagement
Lygeia Ricciardi | September 12, 2013
Next week the Department of Health & Human Services – and ONC – is helping to kick off National Health IT Week (#NHIT) with the third annual Consumer Health IT Summit: Accelerating the Blue Button Movement. Registration is full, but you can sign up for the wait list or participate virtually online. This year’s National Health IT Week Consumer Summit celebrates consumer and patient engagement in health and healthcare via health information technology. This year we’ve decided to include “Blue Button” in its title.
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