Health Information Exchange New Hospital Survey Data Show Progress Toward Interoperability
Erica Galvez | August 13, 2015
A snapshot of health information exchange among America’s hospitals shows that 41 percent routinely are able to access important health information about a patient during treatment from sources outside their hospital according to recent ONC analysis of 2014 data from the AHA.
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From the ONC Desk ONC Grant Funding Opportunities Help Advance Interoperable Health IT, Leverage Community Best Practices and Train the New Health IT Workforce
Thomas A. Mason | July 28, 2015
The grants will fund community and state-based initiatives that help advance health information sharing, enable community members to work together to improve population health, improve the interoperability of health IT systems and continue efforts to train and nurture the health IT workforce.
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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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