Health Innovation ONC’s Open Source popHealth Tool Receives 2014 Certification
John Rancourt | March 20, 2014
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) created popHealth in 2010 as open source software that could import data, then calculate, display, and export electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). As of December 2013, thanks to the hard work of Northwestern University , popHealth is now certified as a 2014 edition electronic health record module (CHPL Product Number: CC-2014-781600-3 ).
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Curriculum Development Centers Department of Veterans Affairs Leverages ONC Curriculum to Educate Staff and Improve Patient Care
Elizabeth Chapman | March 18, 2014
Using online training tools based on the ONC funded health IT workforce curricula, more than 700 Veterans Affairs staff logged thousands of course hours over eight weeks in health informatics training in an effort to improve the way care is delivered to and managed by Veterans.
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Health Information Exchange Health Technology and EMS: ASPR Launches Campaign to Improve Pre-Hospital Care
Kevin Horahan | March 18, 2014
Getting a complete and accurate picture of a patient’s medical history is a challenge under normal circumstances, but it is even more difficult – and even more important – in an emergency. Take, for example, a fairly common occurrence. A woman falls and breaks her arm. Someone calls 9-1-1 and an ambulance arrives. An emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic provides treatment and transports her to the emergency department (ED) where she gets an x-ray and a cast.
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Community College Consortia A Retrospective on the HITECH Workforce Development Program
William Hersh | March 10, 2014
For those of us involved in educating the workforce of health information technology (HIT) professionals and leaders, the past few years have been quite a journey. While funding for the HITECH Workforce Development Program has ended, the longer-term goal of creating the experts who develop, implement, and evaluate health IT across the health care system goes on.
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Community College Consortia Health IT Workforce Training Programs: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Chitra Mohla | March 10, 2014
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
David Riesman (1867- 1940)
Funding for the ONC Health IT Workforce Training Programs, first awarded in March 2010, ended on September 30, 2013. The goal of this program was to train a workforce that would be ready to usher in the digital information age in health care.
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