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Rural Health $8.6 Million in Telehealth Grants: ONC and USDA Celebrate National Rural Health Day
Leila Samy | November 21, 2014
More than $20 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants were announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack November 20, 2014 to support projects all across the country.
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Interoperability Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision for Better Health and Health Care
Jacob Reider | November 13, 2014
Today we are pleased to publish Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision to Achieve Better Health and Health Care. This paper describes ONC’s vision for advancing the use of health IT to support transformational improvement in health care quality and value. It invites health IT stakeholders – clinicians, consumers, hospitals, public health, technology developers, payers, researchers, policymakers and many others – to join ONC in shaping the future with a renewed focus on health and care quality as the “why”
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Health Innovation A New Prize Challenge to Catalyze Health IT Innovation
Maya Uppaluru | November 10, 2014
The health IT start-up sector is growing rapidly. Millions of dollars continue to be invested in innovations that most Americans could have never imagined 10 years ago. In the first quarter of 2014, nearly $700 million was invested in health technology – an 87 percent year-over-year growth . A diverse array of web and mobile applications are changing the way patients and providers interact with the health care system. These technologies accelerate the flow and availability of data,
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Regional Extension Centers Rhode Island: A Look at How a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Team is Using ADT
Larry Jessup | November 3, 2014
Health care organizations using clinical alerting in Rhode Island are seeing improved outcomes and measureable reductions in 30-day hospital readmissions, duplicate testing, and fewer emergency department visits that result in a patient being admitted to the hospital.
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EHR Case Studies New Case Studies Explore Communities Supporting Accountable Care
Alex Baker | October 31, 2014
A growing number of care providers across the country are participating in value-based payment arrangements that are helping to transition the nation away from traditional fee-for-service methods of paying for health care. While fee-for-service models offer little accountability for health outcomes, more and more providers are using new models that reward their ability to deliver higher quality care with greater efficiency.
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