PA REACH West and East have recently announced that they are, at the present time, offering no-cost assistance to physician practices for participating in their program.  Benefits include selecting the EHR solution for your practice (which is certified under the meaningful use program), training your staff on the EHR solution, helping your practice achieve meaningful use…

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A report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology …

According to the National Cancer Institute ("NCI"), the caBIG® Clinical Information Suite Project is available to all, free of charge, a series of software specifications and open source software modules for an oncology-extended electronic health record ("EHR") capability through NCI’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) program.  

It is anticipated that this program will benefit health care provider organizations in the field of ambulatory cancer care seeking to acquire or enhance their existing EHR functionality  as well as EHR vendors.

Additional benefits include:

• Improved care to cancer patients and clinician efficiency
• Interoperability in, and between, research and care.

For more information, please access the following page:

https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caEHR

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Certification for Electronic Health Record ("EHR") Software

A final rule was issued by the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ("ONCHIT") to establish the permanent certification program for electronic health records.  The permanent certification program requires that organizations must first be accredited to test and certify health information technology; certification bodies authorized by…

The American College of Physicians has published a guide on understanding the Patient Care Medical Home (PCMH) model.  Briefly, PCMH is a team-based approach and a personal physician provides care throughout a patient’s lifetime to maximize health outcomes.  The PCMH team provides all of a patient’s health care needs or otherwise arranges care with other…

PA-SIIS

The Pennsylvania Statewide Immunization Information System ("PA-SIIS") is a web-based statewide immunization registry which collects vaccination history information.  PA-SIIS compiles immunization information from health care providers and creates a current and comprehensive immunization record.  PA-SIIS helps health care providers administer appropriate immunizations to their patients. 

For more information: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pa_statewide_immunization_information_system_%2528pa-siis%2529/14281.

PA-NEDSS

Pennsylvania’s version…