Consumer Engagement Launching this fall: the National Blue Button Consumer Campaign
Lygeia Ricciardi | June 23, 2014
At the recent Health Datapalooza Conference held here in Washington DC, ONC announced the next step for a national Blue Button Campaign in coordination with supporters of the Blue Button Initiative. The Blue Button Initiative is a public-private partnership that seeks to give consumers easy and secure access to their health records from a variety of sources in a format they can use.
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Health Innovation A new pilot helps battle hepatitis C with health IT and telemedicine
John Ward | June 18, 2014
Authors
John W. Ward, MD
Director, Division of Viral Hepatitis
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Amy Helwig, MD, MS
Medical Officer
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Health IT and telemedicine are important tools to help early diagnosis and treatment of a growing problem in the U.S. – hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a new pilot program to help use telemedicine to fight HCV,
EHR Case Studies How a screening prompted by clinical decision support saved a patient’s life
Brett Coughlin | June 16, 2014
Anti-aircraft artillery and abdominal aortic aneurysms have a couple of things in common. First, they are both known as ‘Triple A’ (AAA). Second, they both blow up.
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Health Information Exchange A Call To Action for a Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | June 5, 2014
Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure. This paper describes ONC’s broad vision and framework for interoperability and is an invitation to health IT stakeholders – clinicians, consumers, hospitals, public health, technology developers, payers, researchers, policymakers and many others – to join ONC in developing a defined, shared roadmap that will allow us to collectively achieve health IT interoperability as a core foundational element of better care,
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Federal Advisory Committees Applications for Health IT Policy Committee and Standards Committee Workgroups are now being accepted
Michelle Consolazio | May 29, 2014
Want to make a difference?
Applications for Health IT Policy Committee and Standards Committee Workgroups are now being accepted
Are you interested in contributing to health IT strategy and policy, or to help identify which standards, implementation, and certification criteria are needed to help providers better use their health information technology? Apply to be considered for one of the ONC’s federal advisory committee workgroups now through ONC’s application database.