Latest News
| February 2012 |
popHealth at HIMSS12 ConferencePlease join us at the HIMSS12 Conference to hear about popHealth, a clinical quality measure reporting tool. If you are planning to attend in person, you can find a list of activities below. popHealth currently supports the electronic specifications for the 44 Stage 1 clinical quality measures for eligible professionals, with plans to encode Stage 2 clinical quality measure specifications upon their expected release in 2012. Come and engage with the popHealth Team and hear what we have planned for the near future. Read entire article. | ||||||
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| February 2012 |
popHealth for Providers
To ensure room capacity, please RSVP to Renee Rookwood: rrookwood@mitre.org.
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| February 2012 |
popHealth for Vendors
To ensure room capacity, please RSVP to Renee Rookwood: rrookwood@mitre.org.
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| February 2012 |
popHealth v1.4 Released! |
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| February 2012 |
popHealth v1.4 New Feature WebinarOn February 2nd, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a new feature webinar will be hosted by the popHealth project to detail the final release of v1.4! |
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| January 2012 |
popHealth Makes Meaningful Use Reporting Easier. How Can You Help Providers Transition to EHRs?by Wil Yu, ONC, HHSElectronic 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 make the transition to EHRs. Read entire article. | ||||||
| December 2011 |
A new chief for ONCby Diana Manos, Senior EditorOn April 8, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology named Farzad Mostashari, MD, to replace David Blumenthal, MD, as national coordinator for health information technology. Read entire article. | ||||||
| December 2011 |
Know about the popHealth Tools Development Innovation Challenge?by Wil Yu, ONC, HHSElectronic Health Records (EHRs) and Health IT will revolutionize the way that healthcare professionals work and provide care to patients by making care delivery more efficient, precise and advanced. In order to streamline a provider’s transition to electronic health records, great tools like popHealth technology exist. Read entire article. |
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| December 2011 |
popHealth v1.3 New Feature WebinarOn December 19th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a new feature webinar will be hosted by the popHealth project to detail new features under development. |
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| November 2011 |
popHealth presents at the 2011 ONC Annual MeetingOn November 18, the popHealth Team presented "Utilizing the popHealth tool to support quality measure analysis" to workshop attendees at the Annual ONC Grantee and Stakeholder Summit. |
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| November 2011 |
popHealth App Challenge Launched by ONC and Health 2.0by Julie Michelle Smyth, OpenHealthNewsWe should be seeing major improvements to the open source popHealth reporting tool as a result of a Challenge Award just announced by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Health 2.0. It is hoped that the awards will motivate developers to create innovative applications that will enhance the open source tool beyond its current capabilities. Read entire article. |
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| October 2011 |
ONC, Health 2.0 launch popHealth app challengeby Mary Mosquera, Government Health ITA couple weeks ago I talked to two members of the popHealth project, which culls quality measures from electronic health records and formats them either for convenient display--so providers can review their quality measures on the Web--or for submission to regulators who require reports on these measures. popHealth was produced by the MITRE corporation under a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Read entire article. |
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| September 2011 |
ONC, Funds Open-Source Software to Streamline Clinical Quality Measures Reporting for Meaningful Use Programby Sara Cottington, MHA, RHIT, CPHQ, Journal of AHIMAReporting Clinical Quality measures from an electronic health record (EHR) system is new territory and can be challenging for providers. However, that is just what eligible professionals must do to participate in the meaningful use EHR incentive program. Read entire article. |
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| July 2011 |
popHealth Open Source Software Permits Viewing and Reporting of Quality Measures in Health Careby Andy Oram, O'Reilly RadarThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Health 2.0 entrepreneurial organization have opened a contest for developers to innovate with the popHealth tool beyond its reporting functions so healthcare providers can learn more about their patient populations and improve their care. Read entire article. |
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| June 2011 |
ONC's popHealth automates meaningful use reporting for docsby Mary Mosquera, Government Health ITWASHINGTON The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has made available a free tool to simplify the reporting by physicians and practices of clinical quality measures for meaningful use. Although popHealth was just a concept a year ago, ONC has conducted real-world testing and is highlighting it as providers begin to demonstrate meaningful use. Read entire article. |
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| February 2011 |
ONC provides free population health measurement toolby Diana Manos, Senior EditorAs the government gears up to develop standards for meaningful use Stages 2 and 3, the American Medical Association and MITRE Corporation, on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, are working on a project to help test the collection of population health “in the real world.” Read entire article. | ||||||
| February 2010 |
ONC unveils "popHealth" for EHR-based quality reportingby Mary Mosquera, Government Health ITThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT began making available today open source software that will let physicians extract data automatically from their electronic health record systems and generate quality reports and analysis on their patients' healthcare. The "popHealth" prototype software is designed to make it easier for providers to submit summary quality measures or data to public health organizations and federal agencies as part of their existing workflow, according to the ONC announcement. Read entire article. |
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| July 2011 |
popHealth Open Source Software Permits Viewing and Reporting of Quality Measures in Health Careby Andy Oram, O'Reilly RadarThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Health 2.0 entrepreneurial organization have opened a contest for developers to innovate with the popHealth tool beyond its reporting functions so healthcare providers can learn more about their patient populations and improve their care. Read entire article. |
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| June 2011 |
ONC's popHealth automates meaningful use reporting for docsby Mary Mosquera, Government Health ITWASHINGTON The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has made available a free tool to simplify the reporting by physicians and practices of clinical quality measures for meaningful use. Although popHealth was just a concept a year ago, ONC has conducted real-world testing and is highlighting it as providers begin to demonstrate meaningful use. Read entire article. |
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| February 2010 |
ONC unveils "popHealth" for EHR-based quality reportingby Mary Mosquera, Government Health ITThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT began making available today open source software that will let physicians extract data automatically from their electronic health record systems and generate quality reports and analysis on their patients' healthcare. The "popHealth" prototype software is designed to make it easier for providers to submit summary quality measures or data to public health organizations and federal agencies as part of their existing workflow, according to the ONC announcement.Read entire article. |
