Join ONC in Celebrating National Health IT Week
September 16 — 20, 2013
In This Issue
Get ready to pop the popcorn, because National Health IT Week (#NHITweek on Twitter) is just two days and a wake up away!
Consumer Summit
ONC
is kicking off the week with the Consumer Health IT Summit lead by our
chief consumerista, Lygeia Riccardi (@Lygeia). Check out her blog that takes a look at the Blue Button movement
and how you can get involved before you participate in the summit on
Monday. The summit focuses on the Blue Button Movement (#BlueButton) and
how patients can use their own health data to help doctors better
coordinate care. You can watch the webcast of the event.
We are also
holding a social media meetup Monday evening following the Summit at
HHS, so if you are interested in attending please drop us an email (Brett.Coughlin@hhs.gov).
National Health IT Week webinars
The
overall goal of Health IT Week is to highlight the path to
Interoperability, which depends on five elements: adoption and
optimizationof EHRs and HIE services, standards, financial and clinical
incentives, privacy and security, and rules of engagement.
Here are
some opportunities to both educate yourself and weigh in on the latest
policies and initiatives even if you aren’t able to hop on a plane to
D.C.
On Tuesday,
our policy chief, Jodi Daniel (@JodiDaniel) will give an update on
ONC’s health information exchange governance activities along with Kory
Mertz, our Challenge Grant Director and industry leaders including Paul
Uhrig, the chief privacy officer at Surescripts, among others.
The theme for Wednesday is Transforming the Health Care System through Health IT. In that spirit, we are also sponsoring a webinar to share lessons learned
from Colorado. Brian Braun with the Colorado Regional Health
Information Organization (@CORHIO), Patrick Gordon of the Colorado
Beacon Community Program and Dr. Gregory Reicks, one of our Health IT
Fellows, will participate in the webinar, which begins at 3:30 p.m.
(EDT).
Sign up now
and learn how HITECH Programs are supporting healthcare providers in
Colorado transform into highly functioning, health IT enabled practices
On Thursday -- In case you are too busy for either of those, our Beacon team (#HITBeacon) is also hosting another webinar: Shining on through Health IT.
Hear about lessons learned from the Greater Cincinnati Beacon Community
and the Southeast Minnesota Beacon Community. The webinar kicks off
Thursday at 11:30 a.m. (EDT), so check it out!
Patient Matching Initiative launched
We announced on our Buzz blog Wednesday
an initiative to match patients to their electronic health records in a
bid to “improve safety, care coordination and efficiency,” Lee Stevens,
ONC’s State HIE Program director, wrote in his post about the project.
Please go to our Buzz blog to read more.
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