"health IT" Posts

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HealthIT is an Opportunity for Job Creation in Rural Communities

Leila Samy | August 8, 2013

“Who else can provide healthcare in rural Mississippi besides these small rural hospitals? With so much responsibility and so few resources, they need all the help they can get,” said Jim Rice, RN, MBA, Health IT and Electronic Health Record Consultant at the Mississippi Health IT Regional Extension Center.

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ONC Health IT Fellows: National Learning from Local Champs

Lisa-Nicole Sarnowski | August 6, 2013

ONC is pleased to announce the selection of 28 practicing providers & office staff from 18 states to serve as the inaugural class of Health IT Fellows. These Fellows are clinicians, office staff and administrative office champions who have taken meaningful use and leveraged it to become more efficient and innovative in their practices.

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National Nurses Week 2013: Health IT is Essential to Optimal Care

Elizabeth Frederick | May 7, 2013

This is the second blog post in a series related to National Nurses Week and how Health IT is helping nurse provide coordinated care to their patients.
I am Betsy Frederick, MSN-NP, a nurse practitioner (NP) with Martin’s Point Health Care in Bangor, Maine and I have used health information technology (health IT) since 1992. Health IT has helped me provide individualized primary care for my patients.

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