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Collected by: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Archived since: Sep, 2013

Description:

This collection includes HHS news and announcements from 1991+.

Subject:   Government - US Federal Science & Health

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Title: Next edition of electronic health record technology certification criteria issued

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2014/02/21/next-edition-of-electronic-health-record-technology-certification-criteria-issued.html

Description: The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today issued proposals for the next edition (the "2015 Edition") of electronic health record (EHR) technology certification criteria.

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Title: HHS launches challenge to improve hypertension through health IT

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2014/07/07/hhs-launches-challenge-to-improve-hypertension-through-health-it.html

Description: In an effort to help clinical practices use health information technology (health IT) like electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce high blood pressure, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today launched a new challenge asking health care professionals and other caregivers to submit the tools they use to improve patient care.

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Title: More physicians and hospitals are using EHRs than before

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2014/08/07/more-physicians-and-hospitals-are-using-ehrs-than-before.html

Description: Significant increases in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) among the nation's physicians and hospitals are detailed in two new studies published today by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

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Title: HHS proposes path to improve health technology and transform care

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/01/30/hhs-proposes-path-to-improve-health-technology-and-transform-care.html

Description: The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0.

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Title: Online tools and resources available to help states use health IT to improve health care quality and lower cost

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/04/02/online-tools-and-resources-available-to-help-states-use-health-it-to-improve-health-care-quality-and-lower-cost.html

Description: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today the availability of online tools and resources designed to help states participating in the State Innovation Models initiative improve health care quality and lower costs.

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Title: HHS announces $1 million in new grant programs to help improve sharing of health information

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/04/14/hhs-announces-1-million-in-new-grant-programs-to-help-improve-sharing-of-health-information.html

Description: National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., announced today the availability of $1 million in grant funds to support community projects for the Community Interoperability Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program.

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Title: More than $38 million awarded to improve coordinated health information sharing in communities across America

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2015/07/28/more-than-38-million-awarded-to-improve-coordinated-health-information-sharing-in-communities-across-america.html

Description: As part of the Administration's efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today twenty awardees for three health information technology (health IT) grant programs totaling about $38 million.

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Title: HHS Announces Proposed Rule to Support the Reliability, Transparency, Accountability, and Safety of Certified Health IT

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/01/hhs-announces-proposed-rule-support-reliability-transparency-accountability-and-safety-certified

Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today proposed a new rule that would further enhance the safety, reliability, transparency, and accountability of certified health IT for users.

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Title: ONC Launches New Challenges to Spur Innovation for Market-Ready, User-Friendly Health Technology Apps for Consumers and Providers

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/01/onc-launches-new-challenges-spur-innovation-market-ready-user-friendly-health-technology-apps.html

Description: The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today a three-part strategy to spur the development of market-ready, user-friendly software applications (apps) for consumers and health care providers.

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Title: HHS enviará hemoderivados a Puerto Rico debido al brote de zika

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/07/hhs-enviar-hemoderivados-puerto-rico-debido-al-brote-de-zika.html

Description: El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de los Estados Unidos anunció hoy que está preparando y encargándose de subvencionar envíos de hemoderivado, los cuales saldrán del territorio continental de Estados Unidos con destino a Puerto Rico con el objetivo de proporcionar un suministro de sangre no contaminada a los residentes de la isla, puesto que en la Mancomunidad de Puerto Rico se está produciendo una transmisión activa del virus a través de los mosquitos. El primer envío de hemoderivados llegó a Puerto Rico el sábado 5 de marzo.

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Title: HHS ships blood products to Puerto Rico in response to Zika outbreak

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/07/hhs-ships-blood-products-puerto-rico-response-zika-outbreak.html

Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced that it is arranging and funding shipments of blood products from the continental United States to Puerto Rico to ensure an adequate supply of safe blood for island residents as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico experiences active mosquito-borne Zika transmission.

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Title: HHS Announces $1.5 Million in Funding Opportunities to Advance Common Health Data Standards

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/05/09/hhs-announces-millions-in-funding-opportunities-to-advance-common-health-data-standards.html

Description: HHS today released two funding opportunities, offered by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), worth $1.5 million designed to build on the efforts of the federal government and private industry around the use of common standards that support the sharing of health information to improve the delivery of care.

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Title: Statement by Acting Assistant Secretary for Health DeSalvo on World Health Organization Guidance and Resolution on Ending Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/05/28/statement-acting-assistant-secretary-health-desalvo-world-health-organization-guidance-and.html

Description: This week the World Health Organization introduced Guidance on Ending the Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children.

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Title: New Survey Shows Nearly All U.S. Hospitals Using Certified Health IT to Manage Patient Care

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/05/31/new-survey-shows-nearly-all-us-hospitals-using-certified-health-it-manage-patient-care.html

Description: According to data from a new survey released today at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., nearly all of the nation's hospitals have adopted certified electronic health records (EHRs).

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Title: HHS begins listing new transparency information for certified health information technology

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/06/01/hhs-begins-listing-new-transparency-information-certified-health-information-technology.html

Description: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) began listing more detailed and easier-to-understand information about certified health information technology (health IT).

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