Interoperability is at the heart of the nationwide health IT effort.
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Meaningful Use Stage 2: How to Play by the Final Rules Video
NeHC hosted experts on the recently released Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rules for a single webinar to walk through the intricacies and answer questions on each rule that is available by video or downloaded by .PDF
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ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari States Nobody Has Transformed Care Delivery Without IT
Last week, the Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit was held in San Francisco, CA. The overall theme of the leadership summit was getting from the first curve to the second curve creating the value proposition on how hospitals implement health information technology. During the summit, Matthew Weinstock, Senior Editor of Hospitals and Health Networks sat down with ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. to discuss some of the trends he sees in health IT
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74% of Physicians Report EHR Adoption Enhanced Patient Care
2011 Physician Workflow Survey key findings stated that physicians’ experiences with EHR adoption is largely positive and EHRs have enhanced patient care
The CDC's Center for National Health Statistics (NCHS) has issued a data brief announcing estimates from the 2011 Physician Workflow Survey regarding the physian EHR adoption, which is sponsored by the ONC. Overall, in 2011, 55% of physicians in office-based practices had adopted EHRs and 45% had not. Differences were observed between
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Video: Farzad Mostashari. “The True Meaning of… Meaningful Use”
The following is a great video from Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology talks about the "true meaning of Meaningful Use." Farzad recently spoke at the Health 2.0 conference in Boston this week sharing his vision of 5 things that the government can do today to pave the way for new technologies in health care.
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The HIMSS12 Infographic
HIMSS12 infographic highlighting some of the key metrics associated with this year's HIMSS12 in Las Vegas
Yesterday HIMSS released their very first infographic highlighting some of the key metrics associated with this year's event. HIMSS is claiming this year's HIMSS12 broke the world record for tweet volume at a healthcare conference. Some of the highlights of the following infographic include: HIMSS12 averaged 167 tweets per hour
Biz Stone’s keynote alone generated 7,595 tweets – with
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Video:Mobile Device Roundtable:Safeguarding Health Information
Last week, The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) hosted a Mobile Devices Roundtable with the public, industry, and subject matter experts to discuss how to better safeguard health information while using mobile devices. For those that were not able to attend or watch the webcast, the ONC has now made these videos available to the public. Below is all of the videos from the entire event available to watch in one place. The ONC also invites you to provide input on mobile devices' uses
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Video:Dr. Farzad Mostashari Keynote Speech at HIMSS 2012
Great video of Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gives a keynote speech at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas, NV.
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HIMSS 2012 in Retrospect – From Patient Engagement to Big Data. Viva Las Vegas or Tumbling Dice?
The following is a guest post from Jane Sarasohn-Kahn's Health Populi blog reflecting her thoughts on last week's HIMSS12: The record attendance at HIMSS12, in terms of both attendees (numbering some 38,000) and exhibitors, illustrated just how hot health information technology has become in the 20 years since I first began attending this meeting — when it was only a few thousand hospital computer geeks and materials managers picking up pocket protectors and calculators
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Video: The Future of Electronic Health Record
The ONC released this video last month discusses the positive impact of technology in health care. Innovative health care can save lives and every physician and health care provider has a stake in its success. Through the use of electronic health records (EHRs), the coordination of health care for an individual patient between various practitioner offices is more efficient and accurate, resulting in better overall patient care. With an EHR, a patient's information is always current and
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