This Week's News on HealthIT.gov
Standards & Interoperability Training
Welcome
to March! We are still plugging away here at ONC, delivering added
value to you on healthIT.gov through a variety of training modules, the
latest of which is a new resource on Interoperability Basics. The new training helps explain the process of meeting Stage 2 Meaningful Use data exchange requirements. More information can be found on the Standards & Interoperability page on HealthIT.gov and you can read more from Lee Stevens, ONC’s policy director of HIE.
Lee explains in the latest blog post that this is the first of five modules ONC will release to help inform the process of meeting the Meaningful Stage 2 interoperability data exchange requirements.
Infographic
We
can try and explain some of the great things that health information
technology is doing for doctors and patients around the country, but as
they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. OK, it’s an infographic,
not a picture, but you get the idea, so just check out our new infographic at healthIT.gov! Using Health IT to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
Today, ONC released seven white papers stemming from the “The Enhancing Access to Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs using Health Information Technology” pilot project. Visit the "Linking PDMPs to Health IT" page on HealthIT.gov to view these white papers and find out more about this innovative project.
Community Health Centers Data Brief
By
ensuring access to care for underserved communities and populations
across the nation, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are on the
front lines of delivering health care. Health centers are adopting
health information technology – often with support from Regional
Extension Centers – to improve the quality of care.ONC released a data brief earlier this week that describes the role of Regional Extension Centers in assisting health centers on the journey to adopting and meaningfully using health information technology.
Read the data brief on healthIT.gov and follow us on Twitter at ONC_HealthIT.
Tactical Issue Briefs
For the wonks among us, ONC published a few new issues briefs
this week about Health Information Organization development of risk
stratification and risk scores in an effort "to proactively manage the
care of patients with the highest needs."
The
two other new briefs cover support for prescription drug monitoring
programs and an explanation of how high utilizer reporting can help cut
hospital readmissions.
HIE GovernanceThe HIE Governance Webpage was updated to include information about the launch of the National HIE Governance Forum. The Forum was announced by the National e-health Collaborative, our grantee, last week. The forum will bring together entities that are currently serving in governance roles for specific groups of exchange partners at the national, state, or regional level. Learn more about the forum in Jodi Daniel's blog.
New HITPC and HITSC Members
ONC today announced the retuning and new members of the Health IT Policy and Standards Committees. You can find the list of new members in the release. We have put together a number of frequently asked questions if you are interested in applying.
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