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Health IT Safety A Roadmap to Improving Health IT Safety
Andrew Gettinger | July 17, 2015
Today, we took another important step in the national effort to help reduce possible health IT-related adverse events, or errors, with the release of the Health IT Safety Center Roadmap.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Open Invitation to Submit Health IT Test Tools or Procedures
Alicia Morton | July 6, 2015
Improving and streamlining the testing and certification of health IT has long been a goal of ONC. To that end, on June 9th we published a notice in the Federal Register that reintroduced a flexibility included in the ONC Health IT Certification Program that allows the National Coordinator to consider test procedures, test tools, and test data developed by any person or entity for approved use.
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FACA 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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Health Innovation ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Small Businesses for Digital Health Pilot Projects
Adam Wong | May 11, 2015
Coming on the heels of National Small Business Week is the announcement of the six winners of ONC’s inaugural Market R&D Pilot Challenge? The six winners will live-test new health information technology (health IT) applications in health care settings administered by their challenge partners beginning in August.
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Rural Health $1 Billion Invested in Rural Health Care Across 13 States
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | May 4, 2015
In late 2011, the President announced a White House Rural Council initiative lead by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to invest in rural health and link rural doctors and hospitals to financing for health IT. The initiative was designed to address the need for financing to support the adoption of health IT systems in rural communities. Financing has been cited as one of the top challenges for rural doctors and hospitals serving remote and poor communities.
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