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      <title>Major Progress in Doctors’ and Hospitals’ Use of Health IT</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, put in place new incentives for doctors and hospitals to help them make the investment in electronic health records (EHRs). It also made a very important distinction: that health IT is not just about the technology, it&#8217;s how we use the technology to improve [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:04:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ONC Staff Tops the Agenda at HIMSS 2012</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last year, the annual HIMSS conference drew record-breaking crowds with more than 30,000 people from around the country gathered to learn about the latest health information technology (health IT) and to share ideas and experiences. Electronic health records (EHRs), meaningful use, and how to use technology to improve care dominated the schedule. Presentations by ONC [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Innovation Challenge Will Help People with Disabilities Access Their Health Records</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are extremely excited to announce the launch of a new Investing in Innovations mobile app challenge, the &#8220;EHR Accessibility Module Challenge.&#8221; Improving Access to Health Records ONC&#8217;s mission includes reducing health disparities, ensuring secure and protected patient health information, and reducing health care costs. As such, we are challenging multidisciplinary teams to create and [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:04:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Can Health IT Lead to a More Sustainable Health Care System?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Across the country, health care providers are making significant investments to redesign care processes and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) capabilities with the goal of achieving better care, better health, and lower costs. For the American health care system as a whole, the simultaneous pursuit of all three of these aims is essential [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Milwaukee Area Technical College Helps 11 Health IT Students Get Hired</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When Aurora Health Care—Wisconsin’s largest non-profit health care network—needed assistance with electronic health record (EHR) implementation at one of its area hospitals, it reached out to the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Milwaukee Area Technical College is one of the 82 community colleges funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:30:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southeast Minnesota Beacon Develops Asthma Management Toolkit for Schools</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When a child suffers an asthma attack at school, getting the right care at the right time is critical. To respond effectively, school employees need more than quick thinking and general training—they need sound policies and specific action plans that address the needs of individual students.The Southeast Minnesota Beacon Community Program, which promotes health information [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Health IT Taking Flight–What Is in Store for the Year Ahead</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I wrote about some of the most important and notable highlights in the world of health IT and ONC over the past year. The achievements of 2011 built on hard work and progress, which has been underway for many years.The HITECH Act is helping to accelerate this momentum—like a turbocharger in a [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:34:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apps for Health: New “Leading Health Indicators App Challenge” Aims to Make It Easier for Americans to Get Healthier</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We’re very excited to have launched a new Investing in Innovation challenge partnering with the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in support of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, which establishes benchmarks for healthy living and provides 10-year goals for improving the health of all Americans. Designing Apps for Health On Oct. 31, 2011, [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:51:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>popHealth Makes Meaningful Use Reporting Easier. How Can You Help Providers Transition to EHRs?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Learn About the popHealth Tools Development Innovation Challenge! Electronic health records (EHRs) and health information technology will modernize the way that health care professionals do their work and provide care to patients by giving them the tools to offer their patients better, more efficient care. There are also great tools like popHealth available to help providers [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:55:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EHRs Make Flu Shot Reminders Easier</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discusses how electronic health records can help make flu shot reminders easier.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:38:26 GMT</pubDate>
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