Farzad Mostashari
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ONC Plan Makes Reporting IT Hazards Easy
With sights set on utilizing health IT to curb the alarming number of medical errors that transpire each year, ONC officials unveiled Tuesday their final plan to bolster patient safety initiatives nationwide. Read More »
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ONC Releases "Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange"
The recently released "Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange" by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) provides guiding principles on health information exchange (HIE) governance. The framework was developed as an alternative to the abandoned pursuit by ONC of a more formal, centralized governance structure for the U.S. Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Read More »
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ONC Revokes Two EHR Certifications
Two electronic health record systems, previously certified under the EHR Incentive Program, failed recently to meet industry requirements and have had their certifications revoked, ONC officials announced Thursday. Read More »
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ONC Selects Designs To Make EHRs More Consumer-Friendly
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has selected the winning designs of printed health records to help patients better understand and use their electronic health records (EHRs). Read More »
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ONC Unveils framework For HIE Governance
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is shoring up health information exchange efforts with the long-awaited release of the "Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange." The agency says the framework will provide a "common foundation" for all types of HIE governance models. Read More »
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ONC Unveils New Certification Mark
As we reach the "tipping point" of electronic health record adoption, the Office of the National Coordinator has issued a mark for EHRs and other health IT products, meant to serve as visual proof that they can offer functionality, interoperability and security. Read More »
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ONC Will Not Create NwHIN Governance Rule
The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) issued a Sept. 7 statement that it’s tabling its project to define governance for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). Read More »
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ONC's structure gets flatter as its $2B stimulus appropriation ends
It should have come as little surprise that Dr. Karen DeSalvo, in announcing last week a reorganization of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said she was aiming for a “flatter” reporting structure.
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Patient Health Information: Building Access, Encouraging Action And Changing Attitudes
A patient-centered future is in sight. That was the message delivered at the 2012 Consumer Health IT Summit. Read More »
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Patients Matter Most, But Technology Matters A Lot
Computing practices that used to be religated to experimental outposts are now taking up residence at the center of the health care field. From natural language processing to machine learning to predictive modeling, you see people promising at the health data forum (Health Datapalooza IV) to do it in production environments. Read More »
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Q&A: Bettina Experton Talks About The iBlueButton App
Humetrix has given the iBlueButton a technical design boost as a multi- and cross-platform health information hub that patients and providers can use to share health data at the point of care with the most popular mobile tools. Read More »
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Q&A: Mostashari On Sequester, RECs, CommonWell
Interoperability and exchange are perhaps the most frequently spoken words at this year’s HIMSS13 conference. Yet they are only two among the many issues facing national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, this week. Read More »
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RWJF Report: Time to Transition to a Post-HITECH World?
Context and perspective matter. And it’s often both context and perspective that are lacking from the daily snapshots we get of health information technology, meaningful use, interoperability and the progress we are either making or not making, depending on your perspective. So I welcome a report like the one the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released last month on the state of health information technology circa 2015 in these United States. Subtitled “Transition to a Post-HITECH World,” the detailed report, created in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Communication, the Harvard School of Public Health and Mathematica Policy Research, takes a 10,000-feet view of the ongoing digitalization of healthcare and what the priorities are as we approach the terminus of HITECH.
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Sen. Hatch Calls For Pausing Meaningful Use Program
Trying to soften the sting of his remarks by iterating that he does not want to see progress stalled on health IT adoption, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch explained that the federal government cannot afford to spend money on programs that are not working. Read More »
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Stakeholders Divided On Speed Of Implementing Meaningful Use
Pressure is ramping up on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to reassess the current implementation timelines for the next stages of the Meaningful Use program, with industry stakeholders and others using a Senate hearing on patient care to call for a reexamination of the issue. Read More »
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