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As part of the HITECH Act the ONC funded the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program. The SHARP Program was created to fund research focused on achieving breakthrough advances to address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption of health IT. With scalpel-like precision, the hope is that this research will accelerate progress towards achieving ...
A Federal advisory committee is any committee, board, commission, council, panel, task force, or other similar group that advises or recommends to the agency it is charged. The Federal Advisory Committee Act was enacted in 1972 to govern the behavior of these advisory committees. In 2005 the ONC formed its first advisory committee, the American Health Information Community. The ...
The Network of Web 2.0 Connections Among State Health Departments: New Pathways for DisseminationWith social media pervasive in virtually all aspects of society, public health organizations, including state health departments, are finding web-based social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook useful tools to spread public health information. A new study, led by Jenine K. Harris, ...
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has partnered with DirectTrust to create a national accreditation program for health information “trusted agent” service providers, including health information service providers (HISPs), certificate authorities ...
As many as 17% of physician practices are considering switching electronic health record vendors by the end of 2013, according to a new report from Black Book Rankings. With unmet expectations in system features, implementations, deliverables and client support issues mounting, 2013 may become the "Year of the Great EHR Vendor Switch."“The high performance vendors that will emerge as viable past 2015 are those dedicating ...
On Tuesday February 12, 2013 the HHS Office of the National Coordinator hosted it's first Google + Hangout. The participants were:Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D. - Chief Scientist at ONCArien Malec - VP Strategy and Product Marketing at RelayHealth, Former Coordinator for the Direct ProjectDeven McGraw - Director of the Health Privacy Project at CDTJohn Moehrke - Principal Engineer: ...
At the February 6, 2013 HIT Policy meeting Lauren Thompson, PhD the Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) within the Office of Science and Technology at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology gave an excellent overview of the FHA program. The FHA program is a partnership among Federal Agencies to advance health information interoperability ...
IBM and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today unveiled the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs. These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine. To date, Watson has ingested more than 600,000+ pieces of medical evidence, two million ...
There was an excellent panel at the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference held February 4, 2013. First, Secretary Sebelius discussed the administration's health care policy priorities as key provisions of the Affordable Care Act come online over the next year. The health IT panelists included:Farzad Mostashari, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information ...
On February 1, 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final regulations to implement the Physician Payment Sunshine Act—Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act and will be published in the Federal Register on February 8, 2013. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act is designed to expose financial relationships between doctors and industry and requires ...
The HIT Policy Committee is forming a new workgroup on Accountable Care and Health IT. HIT Policy Committee's Accountable Care Workgroup will be charged with making recommendations on how HHS policies and programs can advance the EVOLUTION of a health IT infrastructure that enables providers to improve care and population health while reducing costs in accountable care models. ...
