Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology news from FierceEMR
NewsHealth network hires ONC's community college consortia students for EHR implementation
When Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin's largest non-profit health network, needed to add to its staff in a hurry to implement its electronic health record system, it turned to some of "ONC's kids" for Read more...
Meaningful Use incentive payments top $2.5 billion
Federal and state governments have paid providers more than $2.5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Read more...
Metadata standards inch closer to MU Stage 2 inclusion
Patient privacy and transparency, and how each relates to information exchange, are on the minds of officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, who last Friday asked for public Read more...
Blumenthal: Meaningful Use, healthcare reform 'two sides of the same coin'
National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal welcomed providers and health IT vendors alike into the "era of meaningful use" at last week's eHealth Initiative Annual Conference held in Read more...
Accenture contract will examine EMR real-world use
Under a new contract, Accenture will be working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to develop and manage real-world "use cases" that ONC will use to help in Read more...
ONC final rule establishes permanent health IT certification program
With this week's announcement of a final rule establishing a permanent health IT certification program, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT makes clear exactly what is expected of Read more...
IOM kicks off study of EMR safety as FDA regulation looms
The Institute of Medicine is back on the EMR beat. This week, the IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology held its first meeting as it embarks on a yearlong study of medical Read more...
Guides seek to help vendors improve EHR usability
Three federal agencies have come together to publish a pair of guides on how EHR software and application vendors can improve the usability of their products. In one report, the Commerce Department's Read more...
ONC names two more EMR certification bodies
There are now five organizations approved to certify EHR systems for the federal incentive program, as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has named ICSA Labs, Read more...
CCHIT launches certification for home-grown, modified EHRs
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is kicking off a long-promised but slightly delayed program to help hospitals with home-grown, modified or aging EMR/EHR systems meet Read more...
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