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ONC Reveals Winning Apps For Blue Button Plus Challenge
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded the first-, second-, and third-place finishers of the Blue Button Plus (+) Challenge, according HealthITBuzz.
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ONC Reveals Winning Apps For Blue Button Plus Challenge
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded the first-, second-, and third-place finishers of the Blue Button Plus (+) Challenge, according HealthITBuzz. Read More »
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ONC Revokes Two EHR Certifications
Two electronic health record systems, previously certified under the EHR Incentive Program, failed recently to meet industry requirements and have had their certifications revoked, ONC officials announced Thursday. Read More »
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ONC Seeks Jazzed-Up Blue Button Display
HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched another in a series of contests related to the federal government's Blue Button for America health-records initiative. Read More »
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ONC Selects Designs To Make EHRs More Consumer-Friendly
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has selected the winning designs of printed health records to help patients better understand and use their electronic health records (EHRs). Read More »
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ONC Shows Path To Stage 2 Meaningful Use Via Blue Button
Things may be changing at the top spot in the Office of the National Coordinator, but one thing staying the same is the department’s commitment to patient engagement through its support of the Blue Button, the tool which gives patients the ability to download their electronic medical record with the press of a button. Read More »
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ONC Taps Redesign Winners As Blue Button Continues Evolution
Continuing its pursuit of a widely-adopted, interoperable, and user-friendly patient portal, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has announced the winners of its competition to provide a comprehensive redesign of the Blue Button interface. The design improvements come alongside a rebranding of the initiative, now known as Blue Button+. [...] Read More »
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ONC Taps Redesign Winners As Blue Button Continues Evolution
Continuing its pursuit of a widely-adopted, interoperable, and user-friendly patient portal, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has announced the winners of its competition to provide a comprehensive redesign of the Blue Button interface. [...] After opening the contest to graphic designers in late October of 2012, the ONC received more than 230 entries and chose winners in four important categories.
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ONC To Survey Exchange Between Physicians And Labs
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to gauge the extent to which clinical laboratories are able to electronically send lab test results in structured data to the ordering physicians. Read More »
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ONC Tool Will Capture, Calculate & Report Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures
The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has commissioned development of an open source certification testing tool, called Cypress, to capture, calculate and report clinical quality measure results under Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program. Read More »
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ONC Unveils Blue Button Plus In Preparation For Stage 2 MU
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has released the initial specifications for a rebranding of its Automated Blue Button Initiative, now known as Blue Button+. Read More »
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ONC Unveils framework For HIE Governance
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is shoring up health information exchange efforts with the long-awaited release of the "Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange." The agency says the framework will provide a "common foundation" for all types of HIE governance models. Read More »
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ONC Unveils New Certification Mark
As we reach the "tipping point" of electronic health record adoption, the Office of the National Coordinator has issued a mark for EHRs and other health IT products, meant to serve as visual proof that they can offer functionality, interoperability and security. Read More »
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ONC Unveils Privacy-Training Video Game
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS have produced a video game for training healthcare professionals and staff about their privacy and security responsibilities. Read More »
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ONC Wants Help Exploring FHIR-based Servers and Their Vulnerabilities
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is capitalizing on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to explore how to build secure, interoperable servers for sharing electronic health information, and it wants some help from the public. ONC officials have launched the Secure API Server Showdown Challenge to industry stakeholders to build Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR, servers that are deemed secure under current industry standards and then see if they can be hacked...
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