In the wake of Hurricane Sandy: Health IT 1, Paper Records 0
By Brett Coughlin, Health Information Specialist, ONC, for HealthITBuzz , November 21, 2012 “When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay.” Led Zeppelin Many people in New York and New Jersey have...
View ArticleNew Report Finds E-Prescribing Is on the Rise
By Matthew Swain / Program Analyst, Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling, ONC ,Michael Furukawa / Director, Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling, ONC , and Meghan...
View ArticleSenate Committee Requests ONC Report on EHR Interoperability
By iHealthBeat.org, First Posted on July 28,2014 Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee in a draft bill requested that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Health IT Policy...
View ArticleOIG Finds Vulnerabilities in ONC’s Temporary EHR Testing Program
By iHealthBeat.com First Posted on August 5, 2014 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT failed to ensure that procedures and standards used for testing electronic health records under...
View ArticleONC Launches Online Community for Feedback on Interoperability Roadmap
By Rajiv Leventhal, First Posted on August 11, 2014 Following up on its 10-year interoperability vision laid out in June, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has launched a new,...
View ArticleNew Director of Consumer e-Health Named at ONC
By Gabriel Perna, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, September 11, 2014 Lana Moriarty has been named by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as the newest head of the...
View ArticleONC’s First Health IT Safety Year: Progress Made and Challenges Ahead
By Amy Helwig M.D M.S and Judy Murphy R.N, First posted on Health IT Buzz, on September 18, 2014 We published the Health IT Safety and Surveillance Plan in July 2013 with the charge to learn, lead, and...
View ArticleDoug Fridsma to Depart ONC, Become Head of AMIA
By Gabriel Perna, first posted in Healthcare Informatics, September 22, 2014 Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Science Officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), will be...
View ArticleBREAKING: Karen DeSalvo Steps Away from ONC, Tapped by Burwell to Lead Ebola...
By Gabriel Perna, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, October 23, 2014 Karen DeSalvo, M.D., the National Coordinator for Health IT has been tapped to serve as the Acting Assistant Secretary for...
View ArticleONC Names Acting Deputy National Coordinator
By Gabriel Perna, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, December 3, 2014 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) named Jon White, M.D. the acting deputy national coordinator for...
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