ONC Announces open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (“the Plan”). The Plan reflects ONC’s strategy, developed in collaboration with other federal…

Eric Liederman of Kaiser Permanente gave an interesting talk at HIMSS11 on protecting privacy without harming patients.  It is not uncommon for many audit trails to be full of non-essential information and not helpful in investigating security and privacy breaches.  The HIPAA Security Rule requires, among other things, a security risk analysis and the implementation of…

At HIMSS11, NCQA presented a session on the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards and its alignment with meaningful use.  It also advocates the use of electronic health records in implementing its PCMH model and that it would assist providers in achieving meaningful use.  NCQA recently released its 2011 PCMH model as of January 31, 2011.…

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…