Adoption and Meaningful Use. Legislation The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) work on health IT is authorized by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
The HITECH Act established ONC in law and provides the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the promotion of health IT, including electronic health records (EHRs) and private and secure electronic health information exchange. Other legislation related to ONC’s work includes Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) the Affordable Care Act, and the FDA Safety and Innovation Act.
Read more about health IT legislation. Regulations ONC authors regulations that set the standards and certification criteria EHRs must meet to assure health care professionals and hospitals that the systems they adopt are capable of performing certain functions. Slideshows. News from the European Commission on eHealth policies and projects - HealthTech Wire. eHealth Indicators - Country Profiles. Go to navigation| go to page content | go to contact ICT and eHealth use among General Practitioners in Europe Country Profiles Austria (120KB PDF) Belgium (125KB PDF) Bulgaria (125KB PDF) Cyprus (131KB PDF) Czech Republic (132KB PDF) Denmark (130KB PDF) Estonia (129KB PDF)
World Health Statistics. Skip to main content Access Home Alt+0 Navigation Alt+1. European Health for All Database (HFA-DB) i2010 - Benchmarking. eHealth ERA - A European Union Coordination Action. The database of European eHealth priorities and strategies is a service to European States and their citizens.
The purpose of the database is to enhance knowledge about eHealth activities and to facilitate co-operation between states and regions in the field of eHealth. The database includes documents about national eHealth priorities, strategies, roadmaps and RTD programmes in all EU Member States, the Candidate Country of Turkey as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Most documents can be accessed through a hyperlink to the original website. If you have inquiries or remarks about the database or if you know of any relevant documents that are not included in the database, please send a message to empirica. Country groups Canadian Medical Association (CMA): IT in General Practice: A 10-country comparison.
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