Tag Archives: ONC

ONC Summit: Consumers Want Providers to Speed EHR Deployment

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

By Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News WASHINGTON – Electronic health records will become the norm, sooner than later, experts said at a summit hosted Friday by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). The bottom line, said … Continue reading →

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10 Recommendations for Patient Safety in Health IT

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

by Sabrina Rodak, Becker’s Hospital Review The Institute of Medicine, which cited a need for greater oversight of health IT by public and private sectors, has made 10 recommendations for patient safety in health IT. IOM’s report, “Patient Safety and Health … Continue reading →

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ONC and HHS Introduce 12 Initiatives to Spur Health IT Innovations

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Becker’s Hospital Review  By Jaimie Ohl  6/8/11 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Department of Health and Human Services has launched the new Investing in Innovations Initiative, or 12 Initiative, which is designed to spur innovations … Continue reading →

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ONC Requests Comments- Certificate Interoperability Initiative Report

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

ONC Health IT, by Arien Malec   6/2/2011 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is seeking comments on approaches that will enable providers and other health care entities to obtain and manage digital certificates that … Continue reading →

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Preparing Health IT Leaders for the Future

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

HealthIT Buzz, Latest Health IT Technology from ONC   by Alicia Morton, 5/12/2011 The modernization of health care through information technology calls for a much larger workforce than the one we currently have that will be required to help providers … Continue reading →

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New National Coordinator for HIT

Posted on April 16, 2011 by

healthit.hhs.gov Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM National Coordinator for Health Information Technology  Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM serves as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health … Continue reading →

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Open Public Comment Period for Health IT Strategic Plan

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

3/25/11   hhs.gov The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (“the Plan”). The Plan reflects ONC’s strategy, developed in collaboration with … Continue reading →

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IT Exchange Goals for 2013 Meaningful Use

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

By Mary Mosquera Gov’t Health IT   3/16/11 A panel of the Health IT Policy Committee is exploring gaps in the infrastructure of health information exchange, solutions for which will be critical to some of the proposed objectives for stage … Continue reading →

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ONC Review of Health IT Studies 92% Positive

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

By Ken Terry  FierceHealthIT  March 8, 2011 A new review of articles on the impact of health information technology finds that 92 percent of qualified studies published since 2007 reached “conclusions that were positive overall.” This is not exactly a … Continue reading →

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2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

  Released: 2/7/2011 12:40 PM EST Source: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Orange County Convention Center – Orlando, Fla. February 20-24, 2011 Newswise — The 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition is the largest in the information technology … Continue reading →

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