Meaningful Use ONC Seeking Nominations to the Health Information Technology Standards and Policy Committees
MacKenzie Robertson | May 31, 2012
ONC is seeking nominations to the Health Information Technology Standards and Policy Committees. All nominations must be submitted by Monday, June 11, 2012. For detailed instructions for submitting applications, please refer to the Federal Register Notice.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records What to Do if You Have a Question about Your Certified EHR
Carol Bean | May 25, 2012
The ONC Certification Program staff receives comments and questions by phone and email that are related to the adoption, use, and implementation of certified EHR, as well as questions related to CMS’ Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. The standards and certification criteria are intended to ensure that certified health information technology (health IT) products perform required functions that support better health and health care for patients. Many of the comments we receive come to us as complaints that a certified EHR product is not performing all of the functions that were required for certification.
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Community College Consortia How One Community College Is Providing Health IT Training to the Nation’s Workers
Sunny Ainley | May 25, 2012
When Normandale Community College was first selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as a Community College Consortium Program grantee—one of the nation’s critical hubs for health information technology (health IT) training—we were honored and excited to help develop the workforce of today and of the future that would help providers and hospitals all over the country make the transition to using electronic health records (EHRs) and health IT to improve the health of patients.
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Health Innovation ONC Launches New i2 Ocular Imaging Challenge
Wil Yu | May 18, 2012
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is excited to announce the launch of a new Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative developer contest! The i2 program promotes the use of technology to find solutions that drive better outcomes, engage users in their health, and improve health care quality. The “Ocular Imaging Challenge” tasks developers with creating an application that improves interoperability among office-based ophthalmic imaging devices, measurement devices,
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From the ONC Desk, Health Innovation Positioning ONC for Continued Success
Dr. Farzad Mostashari | May 16, 2012
Today, we announced two exciting changes within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – the creation of an Office of the Chief Medical Officer and an Office of Consumer eHealth.
The primary function of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer will be to infuse a clinical perspective across ONC on all activities which have clinical implications. Activities located in this office will include safety, usability, clinical decision support, meaningful use policy development,