Twenty-eight Meaningful Use-savvy clinicians and healthcare professionals from 18 states will be helping other providers find IT success as part of a new initiative at the the Office of the National Coordinator. The inaugural class of ONC’s Health IT Fellows will “provide grassroots insight and…act as champions to their provider and practice community colleagues on a local and national scale,” a purpose statement for the program said.
The second full week of August roared ahead much like the first, with two major players in the health IT space calling for a Stage 2 Meaningful Use Extension. Such recommendations are no stranger to this readership, but for HIMSS and the AAFP, these policy announcements add to the growing chorus CHIME began in late May. The dog days of summer these are not. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Washington Debrief, covering what CIOs need to know from the week that was August 12-16, 2013.
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Source: Washington Debrief: New ONC Fellows Named
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