Mary Mosquera
The public has 60 days from the publication of the rules today to offer their views on the health IT incentive proposal.
Few providers normally perform a risk analysis, one of the requirements in proving meaningful use for 2011.
Videos and online forums aim to help the public understand agency operations and how it regulates drugs and medical devices.
FDA Sentinel network to scan Harvard-Pilgrim health plan data for adverse events involving medical products.
Clinical quality reporting and measures tied to outcome improvement are major topics for meaningful use work group.
ONC work group sorts through approaches to user verification to accelerate health information exchange, prepare for incentives.
Officials say a San Diego pilot program marks a key milestone in meeting a presidential priority to expand military health record sharing.
ONC seeks firm to test ability to re-identify personal health data that has been scrubbed of digital links to an individual.
The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program will focus on barriers to adoption of electronic health records.
ONC publishes notices on plans for vendors to evaluate state health IT grant programs and monitor HIT training services.