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Good morning and welcome to Day 2 of National Health IT Week (#NHITWeek)! Yesterday's Consumer Summit was standing room only as some new and emerging patient voices took the stage. Emily Kramer Golinkoff (@Emilykg1) told her story of how she uses health IT to fight Cystic Fibrosis. We also heard from Alexis Barries, a young patient in foster care who has become the Youth Ambassador for HealthShack, which allows homeless or underserved youth to store and share their important electronic health documents. Gilbert Salinas, an Institute for Healthcare Improvement Fellow with multiple chronic conditions, explained how he used Health IT to reorganize his healthcare team when he moved from California to Massachusetts. Finally, Nawando Eze, a pediatrician, spoke about her experience as a consumer sharing data she collected about her premature newborn with the team of pediatricians, and how that helped her manage her daughter's care in partnership with the providers.

If you missed it, we will have the livestream of the event archived very soon! More than 1,000 participated in person or online and many, many more followed via Twitter (#NHITWeek and #bluebutton).

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

Blogging, blogging, blogging

Our own Vaishali Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Erin Siminerio, M.P.H., penned a blog post about 'Consumer Access and Use of Online Health Records: It Takes Two to Tango' so give it a read.

ONCers Siminerio and Maya Uppaluru also unveiled the Blue Button Toolkit in another blog post. Take a minute to read about how you can use it to help your patients or their designated representatives check their health data.

Interoperability Briefing

ONC staff and officials from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) for a Capitol Hill Briefing to highlight how government and industry leaders are working to achieve interoperability across the nation to advance the effective delivery of healthcare. The event starts at 11:45 am – 2:00 pm (all times are EDT) in room 385 of the Russell Senate Office Building. (RSVP required amorris@cio-chime.org – this session will not be webcast)

Million Hearts Webinar

Join us from 1 – 2 pm for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webinar to discuss the progress that has been made in stopping 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. The webinar is part of CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds program, so sign up for the free webinar and learn about ABCS (Aspirin when appropriate, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management and Smoking cessation).