Rural Health Expanding Funds for Health IT in Tennessee’s Poorest Rural Counties
Leila Samy | March 26, 2014
The latest round in a White House Rural Council initiative to link rural doctors and hospitals with financing they need to adopt Health IT, such as electronic health records, kicks off today in Tennessee. The program focuses on the poorest counties in Tennessee and is part of a broader initiative that generated over $70 Million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other partners for rural hospitals and clinics in 2012 and 2013.
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Interoperability Two Significant S&I Framework Milestones: the Health eDecision Initiative Close-Out and Clinical Quality Framework Launch
Dr. Doug Fridsma | March 20, 2014
As you know, measuring quality and improving quality are key parts of improving health, health care and increasing efficiency. Within the S&I Framework, the Health eDecisions (HeD) project has led the charge in accelerating standards to support clinical decision support.
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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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