Health Information Technology

• Health IT Playbook: The Health IT Playbook was developed by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and designed to provide practical, technical, and workflow assistance including tools and resources that providers and practices can leverage when implementing and optimizing health IT, including electronic health records (EHRs).
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• Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020
  ONC's Health IT Strategic Plan explains how the federal government will apply the effective use of health information and technology to help the nation achieve high-quality care, lower costs, and a healthy and engaged population.
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• Interoperability Initiatives Environmental Scan
  HIMSS resource that provides the current landscape and location of where interoperable health information exchange occurs throughout the country.
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• Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement Resource Center
  Provides tools and resources for the development, testing, certification, implementation, reporting, continuous evaluation of electronic clinical quality measures and their improvement.
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• Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL)
  ONC tool providing comprehensive list of health IT that have been tested and certified through the ONC Certification Program
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• ONC Health IT Complaint Form
  ONC tool for users to share issues and concerns related to health IT products including health IT certification, safety, usability, and information blocking.
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• Clinician Perspectives on Electronic Health Information Sharing for Transitions of Care
  Results of a survey that reveals an overwhelming majority of clinicians believe that the electronic exchange of health information will have a positive impact on improving the quality of patient care, coordinating care, meeting the demands of new care models, and participating in third-party reporting and incentive programs.
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• Health Information Privacy and Security (HIPSC) Toolkit
  HIPSC addresses barriers to health information exchange and aims to effectively address privacy and security issues pertinent to electronic health information exchange through multi-state collaboration. The purpose of the toolkit is to increase provider awareness of the privacy and security benefits and challenges of HIE.
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• AMA-MGMA Selecting a Practice Management System Toolkit
  Information and resources on how to select a practice management system.

• Method for Reporting Quality Measures Using a QCDR
  An overview of ACP's Genesis Registry, a qualified clinical data registry (QCDR) for quality improvement.

• HIPAA and Interoperability

  • Permitted Uses and Disclosures: Exchange for Health Care Operations
  • Permitted Uses and Disclosures: Exchange for Treatment
  • Information Blocking

• Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement Resource Center
  Provides tools and resources for the development, testing, certification, implementation, reporting, continuous evaluation of electronic clinical quality measures and their improvement.

• National Broadband Map is particularly helpful for providers in the EHR Incentive Programs that need to determine their broadband download speed for exclusion criteria.

• Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information
  This ONC instructional guide is designed to help practices understand the important role privacy and security play in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and Meaningful Use.

Telehealth Guidance & Resources

Telehealth encompasses many modes of communication and transfer of healthcare data between healthcare professionals and their patients, including telemedicine (video visits), telephone visits and remote patient monitoring. This section offers guidance on clinical use cases, technology, regulations and waivers, and billing and coding.

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