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Collected by: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Archived since: Sep, 2013

Description:

This collection includes HHS news and announcements from 1991+.

Subject:   Government - US Federal Science & Health

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Title: Fact Sheet: Commitments from health care industry to make electronic health records work better for patients and providers

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/02/29/fact-sheet-health-care-industry-make-electronic-health-records-work-better-patients-and-providers.html

Description: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that companies that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by hospitals nationwide as well as the top five largest private healthcare systems in the country have agreed to implement three core commitments:

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Title: HHS announces major commitments from healthcare industry to make electronic health records work better for patients and providers

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/02/29/hhs-announces-major-commitments-healthcare-industry-make-electronic-health-records-work-better.html

Description: Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced that companies that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by U.S. hospitals, the nation's five largest private healthcare systems, and more than a dozen leading professional associations and stakeholder groups have pledged to implement three core commitments that will improve the flow of health information to consumers and healthcare providers.

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Title: HHS Announces Proposed Rule to Support the Reliability, Transparency, Accountability, and Safety of Certified Health IT

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/01/hhs-announces-proposed-rule-support-reliability-transparency-accountability-and-safety-certified

Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today proposed a new rule that would further enhance the safety, reliability, transparency, and accountability of certified health IT for users.

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Title: ONC Launches New Challenges to Spur Innovation for Market-Ready, User-Friendly Health Technology Apps for Consumers and Providers

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/01/onc-launches-new-challenges-spur-innovation-market-ready-user-friendly-health-technology-apps.html

Description: The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today a three-part strategy to spur the development of market-ready, user-friendly software applications (apps) for consumers and health care providers.

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Title: New Survey Shows Nearly All U.S. Hospitals Using Certified Health IT to Manage Patient Care

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/05/31/new-survey-shows-nearly-all-us-hospitals-using-certified-health-it-manage-patient-care.html

Description: According to data from a new survey released today at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., nearly all of the nation's hospitals have adopted certified electronic health records (EHRs).

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Title: ONC Unveils New Videos Empowering Patients to Learn Their Rights Under HIPAA

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/06/02/onc-unveils-new-videos-empowering-patients-learn-their-rights-under-hipaa.html

Description: As part of the final day of the 2016 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., ONC today unveiled a series of consumer-oriented videos about the rights patients have to access their health information, as well as a Patient Engagement Playbook for Providers designed to help clinicians and office staff better engage patients through the use of health IT.

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Title: New members named to serve on federal Health Information Technology Policy and Standards Committees

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/06/23/new-members-named-to-serve-on-federal-health-information-technology-policy-and-standards-committees.html

Description: Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell named eight new members of the Health Information Technology Standards Committee (HITSC) and one new member to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC). The HITSC is charged with recommending standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information.

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Title: HHS issues final rule to enhance the reliability, transparency, accountability, and safety of certified health information technology

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/10/14/hhs-issues-final-rule-enhance-reliability-transparency-accountability-and-safety-certified-health.html

Description: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule that emphasizes the importance of protecting public health and safety while also strengthening transparency and accountability in the ONC Health IT Certification Program ("Program").

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