The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

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Congressman Offers 3-Point MU Fix

Tom Sullivan, | Healthcare IT News | June 23, 2014

With $23 billion already spent on incentivizing providers to adopt electronic health records, many in government and industry are wondering whether taxpayers and patients got what they paid for...

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Most RECs Plan To Stay Open For Business

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | May 2, 2014

Federal funding for most regional extension centers is set to dry up by late this year or early next, but most of them still plan to keep their doors open, according to the 2014 HIMSS Regional Extension Center Survey...

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Time For Hard HITECH Reboot

John W. Loonsk | Healthcare IT News | May 29, 2014

...The Government Accountability Office reports that there is a lack of strategy, prioritized actions, and milestones in HITECH. HIT interoperability is recognized as being limited at multiple levels. And resultantly, the benefits of HIT that depend on a combination of adoption, interoperability, and health information exchange as table stakes are elusive...

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US Government Office Of The National Coordinator For Health Information Technology (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation

Mike Leszcz | OpenID | August 21, 2014

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined the OpenID Foundation (OIDF). ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and utilize the most advanced health information technology for the electronic exchange of health information...

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