Category: ONC Workforce Development
What is Biomedical & Health Informatics?
William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Blog: Informatics Professor Years ago, I used to get asked on a regular basis, What is Medical/Biomedical/Health Informatics? To answer this question, I created a Web site that attempted to answer it. Later on, I added some [...]
ONC Health IT Curriculum Project
Public Rollout of the ONC Health IT Curriculum William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Blog: Informatics Professor This past summer was a major milestone for the ONC Health IT Curriculum project. The curricular materials that were developed for the 82 community college programs to [...]
The Critical Role of Clinical Informaticians
Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Approved William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Blog: Informatics Professor Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Approved Last month, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) approved a medical subspecialty in clinical informatics, as noted in a news release from AMIA. The approval [...]
The Emergence of the Informatics Practitioner
The Emergence of the Informatics Practitioner William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University As we enter 2011, the first year of incentive payments for “meaningful use,” it is amazing to step back and contemplate the many changes in the biomedical and health informatics field [...]
CHIME survey on Health IT Workforce
William Hersh, MDWilliam Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University …… New Data Reiterates Coming Need for Health IT Workforce ….. A recent survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) provides good news and bad news on the health IT workforce. [...]
September produces another $184M from HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services is not stopping when it comes to moving money into the public to support their initiatives. September brought another $184 million of grants and assistance to ultimately help the adoption of EHRs. Here’s the breakdown. Friday, September 17, 2010, $130.8 Million to Boost Health Professions Workforce. These grants [...]
Update on ONC workforce projects
William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Although summer is historically “down time” in academia, this summer has been anything but down. Like many people in the health IT arena, I have been busy with two Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT [...]
ONC Workforce Development Program – Part 2
Highlights from the Informatics Professor HITECH Answers is pleased to have William Hersh, MD on board as an expert contributor to our blog. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University HIT [...]
ONC Workforce Development Program – Part 1
Highlights from the Informatics Professor HITECH Answers is pleased to have William Hersh, MD on board as an expert contributor to our blog. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. Read his full bio or contact him at: hersh@ohsu.edu William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics [...]
Providers working towards HIE and interoperability face the challenge of bringing connectivity to scale to take advantage of the data being generated by EHR adoption. This paper seeks to demonstrate that connectivity at scale can be accomplished. 
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