Healthy Patients Through Health Technology
On January 27, Joel White Executive Director of the Health IT Now Coalition participated in a Capitol Hill Briefing hosted by the Institute for e-Health Policy. You can find the presentation by clicking here.
On March 4, Aetna announced a new approach for communicating with patients. Aetna is providing mobile solutions to the vast majority of its members which includes mobile “apps”, text messaging and mobile web access via smart phones.
Posted On: March 5, 2010On March 2, the Department of Health and Human Services released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making process for the establishment of certification programs for health IT.
Below are “Facts at a Glance” released by the Office of the National Coordinator.
On March 3, Verizon announced a new IT platform that will help spur widespread adoption of health IT. The new platform enables providers to digitally share and exchange physicians notes on a secure interoperable platform.
“Pervasive sharing of patient information can save lives, but complex challenges have stood in the way of health IT solutions,” said [...]
Broadband Internet Has Led To Advances Like Health IT
The Health IT Now Coalition applauds the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission
ARRA was signed into law on February 17, 2009. On August 20, 2009, the HIT Standards Committee made recommendations to National Coordinator Blumenthal for standards governing meaningful use of electronic health records. HHS will issue a final rule based on the recommendations by December 31, 2009. There will be a 60 day comment period.
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