Health information technology (IT) is an evolving infrastructure that supports the management of health information and secure information exchange across computerized systems to enhance healthcare quality and delivery.
Telehealth Guidance and Resources
Telehealth encompasses many modes of communication and data transfer between health care professionals and their patients, including telehealth video and audio-only visits and remote patient monitoring. This section offers guidance on clinical use cases, technology, regulations and waivers, and billing and coding.
Interoperability and Information Blocking Regulations
Resources regarding the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP/ONC) regulations aimed at improving interoperability and patient access to electronic health information.
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and Conditions of Certification
These materials from ASTP/ONC provide information about these two conditions of certification and describe required, prohibited, and permitted practices of certified health IT developers under the 21st Century Cures Act.
The Health IT Playbook was developed by ASTP/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).
Provides tools and resources for the development, testing, certification, implementation, reporting, continuous evaluation of electronic clinical quality measures and their improvement.
Provides actionable insights into health information and technology topics from HIMSS subject matter experts.
Comprehensive list of health IT that have been tested and certified through the ASTP/ONC Health IT Certification Program. The website includes a comparison tool for certified health IT products.
This tool is particularly helpful for physicians in the EHR Incentive Program who need to determine their broadband download speed for exclusion criteria.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan outlines federal health IT goals and objectives, with a focus on improving the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information and individuals’ access to their electronic health information.
ASTP/ONC tool for users to share issues and concerns related to health IT products including health IT certification, safety, usability, and information blocking claims.
HISPC addresses barriers to health information exchange (HIE) 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 clinician awareness of the privacy and security benefits and challenges of HIE.
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