As many of you know, ONC is emerging as the player agency in things health IT.  ONC (and sometimes you see ONCHIT) stands for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.  ONC is the principal Federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information.

Summary of Changes to Questions Sets - Second Quarter 2010

We would like to notify you of changes that have been made to the ComplyTrack Risk Assessment questions in the Comprehensive Library for the Provider Baseline. As part of the Quarterly Review Process, the following Risk Assessments were reviewed this quarter:

The HIT Standards Committee met on October 29, 2009 and formed an "Implementation Workgroup" which is charged with bringing forward “real-world” implementation experience to the HIT Standards Committee recommendations.  The Implementation Workgroup will have a special emphasis on strategies to accelerate the adoption of proposed standards, or mitigate barriers, if any.  In addition to public meetings designed to uncover new strategies, the Committee also launched a blog. Industry groups, including the AHA, are encouraging hospital leader's to partic