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The Health IT Leadership Award goes to … ONC's own Judy Murphy R.N.! The HIMSS citation for the award states that in her role as Chief Nursing Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Quality and Safety, Murphy "advances the vision of using health IT to improve health care, lower costs, and promote consumers' greater understanding and use of health IT for their own health."

Rolling into Day 4 of National Health IT Week (#NHITWeek), we've got a slew of new webinars and blog posts for you to peruse. Check them out!

Join the National Health IT conversation online @ONC_HealthIT #NHITWeek and follow the week's planned activities at HealthIT.gov and www.healthitweek.org.

Governance Post-HITECH Webinar

ONC's recently released call to action for a nationwide interoperable health IT infrastructure identified five key blocks to achieve this vision. The Governance webinar will focus on the fifth building block "Rules of engagement and governance." Please join us for the webinar to discuss ONC's previous and future governance activities.

How Direct Improves Teamwork

Using Direct, providers are able to push health information quickly and securely with the provider team and patients. But how can it improve teamwork and enhance workflow? Find out with this handy flowchart.

NQF Wants You! For Pop Health Guide

The National Quality Forum (NQF) seeks up to 10 collaborative groups from across the country to field test the NQF Action Guide 1.0 – a handbook designed to promote improvement of health across a population, on the local, regional, state, or national levels. The Guide, which was developed by an NQF-convened, multi-stakeholder committee, and the field testing are part of a three-year project funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services to stimulate effective collaboration to improve the nation’s health.

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Our regional extension centers have surpassed their goals and now support more than 100,000 providers to demonstrate Stage 1 Meaningful Use. Read more about the REC's progress to work with small and rural providers to help them adopt and meaningfully use health IT.

And there's more! Learn how the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) helped a Federally Qualified Health Center increase colorectal screenings and integrate real-time numeric and text-based results directly into patients' progress notes. The next step for the FQHC, South Cove Community Health Center, is to get up and running with the Mass. HIE. "Participating in the HIE should make it much easier to collaborate with other agencies in terms of electronically receiving results, imaging, screenings, and progress notes into our EHR. This will really complete the journey of going paperless and allow our providers to have access to important information that might change the way they treat the patient," said Brook Hailu, South Cove's quality improvement program manager.