- Health IT and Quality Events
- Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's Keynote Speech at the Office of National Coordinator's "Health Data Palooza"
- U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) Releases Health Information Technology (IT) Dashboard to Deliver Data on HHS Health IT Programs and the Nationwide Adoption of Health IT
- Department of Agriculture Awards $8 million in Telemedicine Grants Health Information Technology Workforce Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Podcast “Health Information Technology and Home Health Care”
- New The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) and the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) special issue on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
- National Quality Strategy: 2012 Annual Report to Congress Released
- Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Publishes Two Quality Improvement Papers
- Two New Health Disparities Resources from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)
- Health IT Workforce Updates
- Meaningful Use Round Up
- mHealth Updates
- ICD-10 Update
- New HRSA Health Information Technology and Quality Website Items
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Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
HRSA Health Information Technology and Quality Newsletter June/July 2012
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
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http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.