What’s Happening in Health IT

In This Issue

• Now Available: Cypress - Version 3.0
• NCI Looking for New Cancer Care Coordination Programs
• In Case You Missed It
• Federal Advisory Committee Schedule July 31 - August 6

Now Available: Cypress - Version 3.0

The third version of Cypress is now available to support 2015 certification for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM). Cypress v3 supports testing for the June 2015 and April 2016 updates to the Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Eligible Hospital eCQMs and the MU Stage 2 Eligible Professional eCQMs. The new v3 release and release notes are available on the Cypress website.

Please send any feedback to Project Cypress Talk.

NCI Looking for New Cancer Care Coordination Programs

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) today issued a request for new health informatics tools to measure the coordination of cancer care. The new contract would meet a need for informatics tools that automate measurement for existing care coordination measures and be flexible to allow for the addition of new measures as they are developed. The submission deadline for the two-phase program is October 21, 2016. Details about how to submit are available on NCI’s website.

In Case You Missed It

• Health IT Buzz Blog: An Opportunity for Sharing Information about Cyber Attacks
• New HIE and EMS Resources
• Fact Sheet: Emergency Medical Services & Health Information Exchange: What do you need to know?
• Health Information Exchange & Emergency Medical Services 
• EHR vendor quick stats updated with 2015 data for hospitals and ambulatory providers participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program

Federal Advisory Committee Schedule July 31 - August 6

There are no Federal Advisory Committee meetings scheduled July 31 - August 6.
*All times are in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted