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Paper to Electronic Charts Made Easy

Community clinics with experience making the transition from paper to electronic records share the strategies, techniques, and insights they learned along the way.

Telehealth Project to Provide Dental Care

Low-income families will receive free dental care, thanks to the Virtual Dental Home, a telehealth project supported by CHCF and other funders. The four-year pilot project will eventually operate in nine California communities.

Take the DiabetesMine Design Challenge

Have a creative idea for a new tool to improve life with diabetes? The 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is offering $23,000 in cash, plus consultations with design experts and other prizes. CHCF is a sponsor; entries are due by April 30.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Report: Comparative Effectiveness Efforts Require IT Investment

HHS should allocate part of its allotment for comparative effectiveness research from the federal economic stimulus package to improve its data infrastructure for sharing and analyzing information, according to a federal report released yesterday, Government Health IT reports.

In the IT arena, the report by the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research recommended that HHS provide funds to:

  • Link current data sources;
  • Develop distributed data networks; and
  • Partner with private organizations.

The report stated that current databases are not easily searchable and are fragmented to the point that researchers do not know what information the databases contain.

The federal stimulus law required the report, which was based on input from stakeholders at a number of public meetings (Robinson, Government Health IT, 6/29).



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