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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Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | October 28, 2014
On Thursday, October 23rd, Dr. Karen DeSalvo was asked by Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become Acting Assistant Secretary of Health (ASH) to serve the country on public health matters, especially the Department’s Ebola response efforts.
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Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | October 16, 2014
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,
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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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