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Meaningful Use Now is the Time for Meaningful Use!
Dr. Farzad Mostashari | September 12, 2012
Recognizing the need to strike a balance between the urgency of modernizing our health care system and the pace of change that can be absorbed by providers and health IT vendors, CMS and ONC have implemented the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs in three stages, with each stage adding increased functionality and advanced concepts designed to improve patient care, enhance care coordination, and increase patient and family engagement. Released in July 2010,
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Consumer Engagement Nurses, “Ask for YOUR e-Health Record!”
Judy Murphy | September 10, 2012
As the 2012 National Health IT Week begins, we’d like to call on the 3.2 million registered nurses across the nation and the important roles they serve everyday as caregivers, advocates, educators, and health consumers to take action in their own health. In support of ONC’s Consumer e-Health Program, the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) and American Nurses Association (ANA) have been working with ONC to engage the nation’s nurses to help patients get more involved in their health and health care by asking them to be more involved patients themselves.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Enabling Trusted Exchange: Governing the Nationwide Health Information Network
Dr. Farzad Mostashari | September 7, 2012
An overarching goal for ONC is that information follows the patient where and when it is needed, across organizational, vendor, and geographic boundaries. We believe that the current state of information exchange and care coordination is far from this ideal, and that in addition to technical challenges with interoperability, the absence of common “rules of the road” may be hindering the development of a trusted marketplace for information exchange services.
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State HIE Direct Secure Messaging Makes Big Impact in Chicago Behavioral Health Community
Erica Galvez | September 5, 2012
Individuals with serious mental illnesses are 2.6 times more likely than the general public to develop cancer and nearly twice as likely to end up in an emergency or inpatient department with a serious injury, according to recent studies conducted at Johns Hopkins.
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Meaningful Use Meaningful Use Stage 2: A Giant Leap in Data Exchange
Dr. Farzad Mostashari | August 28, 2012
The CMS and ONC Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules we just issued represent a massive step forward in advancing the secure exchange of information between providers and patients to support better care across the nation. Getting the right information to the right person at the right time can be a matter of life and death. Unfortunately, anyone who has been a patient or cared for a patient understands that it’s simply not happening today.
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