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Health IT 101 website -HHS/AHRQ

The Agency for Healthcare Quality & Research has a web page with a number of HIT information resources.  Some of the information may be…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Nov 20, 2010

ONC Meaningful Use Workgroup 7-29-10 Hearing Summary

This was a very informative session concerning the response of governmental organizations to HIT provisions of PPACA.  This hearing offers…

Started by Marisel Brown

0 Nov 8, 2010

Health IT workforce funding programs up and running

There was some good news for community colleges recently with $84 million funding from HHS for health IT workforce development. It is good…

Started by Cecil Verley

0 Sep 24, 2010

Public health IT apps shut out of first phase of HIT work by the Feds

This seems like a real problem.  I understand from posts on this network that public health is not taken seriously.  But this opinion artic…

Started by Maximillian Phillips

0 Sep 18, 2010

Summary-Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act)

A lot of the focus concerning HIT has been from the perspective of the ACA.  The economic stimulus package (2008-09) also included billions…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Sep 15, 2010

REPORT: HITECH Revisited-An assessment of progress & challenges ahead

PPACA's passage overshadowed the first massive investment in HIT, made possible by the passage of the economic stimulus bills.  A report su…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Jun 24, 2010

Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) moving closer to EHR certification process

Source: iHealthBeat 6/21/2010 On June 18, ONC released a final rule on a temporary program designed to help ONC approve organizations to te…

Started by Marisel Brown

0 Jun 24, 2010

WHAT IS HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE?

Below is a page from the AHRQ website that explains health information exchange (HIE).  About three years ago, I participated in my hospita…

Started by Tamar Knox

1 May 26, 2010
Reply by Leona Ow Woodbridge

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLOUDS

You've heard about cloud computing. But what you may not know is that those in the know about tech predict that most business computing wil…

Started by Leona Ow Woodbridge

0 May 26, 2010

HHS awards HIT grants that include population health functions

From iHealth Beat 5/4/10 On Tuesday, Vice President Biden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the 15 communities that will share…

Started by Maximillian Phillips

0 May 20, 2010

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