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Health Information Exchange Practical Playbook Merges Public Health/Primary Care Using Health IT
Brett Coughlin | March 6, 2014
Marrying public health and primary care coordination to improve population health using Health IT sounds like a no-brainer. It sounds easy, right? Maybe not, but a new initiative is bringing these three elements together in a bid to improve health, healthcare and control costs.
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Consumer Engagement Introducing the Blue Button Connector
Lygeia Ricciardi | February 24, 2014
Today at the HIMSS conference in Orlando ONC demonstrated the Blue Button Connector. This early release of the Connector website is an invitation to members of the growing Blue Button community to help to improve the website before it is more widely marketed to consumers and developers.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Patient matching findings released
Lee Stevens | February 21, 2014
Today, we released findings on the current state of patient matching systems and programs as a part of ONC’s Patient Matching Initiative.
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State HIE Children’s Medical Center Dallas Enables True Data Liberation for Patients
Lee Stevens | February 19, 2014
Children’s Medical Center Dallas is among the first hospitals in the U.S. to implement true, untethered export of patient health data to a Personal Health Record (PHR) – one of the many benefits of health IT. Over a year in planning, and in partnership with Microsoft Health Vault and Verizon, and supported by ONC, Children’s is now exporting patient health data for patients undergoing treatment for Sickle Cell Disease to their PHRs, and they are expanding the program to other care specialties including cardiac care.
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From the ONC Desk HITECH Turns 5
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | February 19, 2014
This week marks a major milestone in our journey towards adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records. As we work toward the secure, private and meaningful exchange of interoperable health information across the continuum of care, the law that made much of this possible turns five. We are celebrating the five-year anniversary of the passage of the Health Information Technology and Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) as part of the American Recovery and Revitalization Act.
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