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New This Week on HealthIT.gov
In This Issue
- The Online Insurance Marketplace
- News: New ONC eRx study
- Million Hearts
- Behavioral Health & HIT
- Workforce Resource
Happy
week after Health IT Week! Hope you were as energized as we were by the
incredible support and enthusiasm for using Health IT to improve
health, healthcare and to control costs.
You
may have heard that there is a big milestone coming up next week with
the implementation of the health care law. When the online insurance
marketplaces go live next Tuesday, approximately 7 million uninsured
Americans are expected to be able to get affordable health insurance,
according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Like
any “go-live” there may be some glitches and problems at first, but
those will be addressed and adjusted along the way, and the Health
Insurance Marketplace will be ready and open for business on October 1st.
The way it
works is, depending on a person’s income, he or she may be eligible for
subsidies to purchase health insurance. When all is said and done:
“Nearly all eligible uninsured Americans (about 95%) live in states with
average premiums below earlier projections. And nearly all consumers
(about 95%) will have a choice of health insurance companies, each of
which offers a number of different plans,” writes Jeanne Lambrew, Deputy
Assistant for the White House Office of Health Reform. If you are
interested in more details, read more of Lambrew’s blog post.
The American Journal of Managed Care published earlier today new ONC research
showing the percentage of providers who e-prescribed through one
popular EHR vendor vaulted from 7% to 54%. We think it’s pretty good
news!
Many of you
should know that Million Hearts® is a national initiative to prevent
one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017 and is supported by an ONC
Call-to-Action. Million Hearts®
brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations,
federal agencies, and private-sector partners from across the country to
fight heart disease and stroke. It is a critical element of the
National Quality Strategy and has the potential to help improve the
health of millions of Americans by improving the ABCs:
- Aspirin when appropriate
- Blood pressure control
- Cholesterol management and smoking cessation.
ONC’s goal
is to help 1,000 health care providers leverage Health IT to track and
measure success on two Million Hearts® measures: Blood Pressure Control
and Smoking Cessation. Learn how you can get started in the Million
Hearts® Call-to-Action on ONC’s Health IT.gov Million Hearts page.
ONC’s Office of Policy and Planning just released an issue brief
that discusses adoption of health IT among behavioral health providers
and highlights all the behavioral health activities we support along
with our federal partners.
Find our newest HealthIT.gov workforce content,
including links to educational opportunities and competency programs
for patient-centered medical homes, health information exchange,
population management and much, much more.
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