Thursday 23 April 2015

Feds offer tech tools for states reforming health services

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are teaming to develop specialized technical assistance and comprehensive online health IT tools and resources for State Innovation Model states, according to a recent blog post at healthit.gov.

The online resources are also available to states not participating in the program.

The State Innovation Model is an initiative to aid states in upgrading their health services to improve health care. SIM includes 34 states, three territories and the District of Columbia.

Organizations that have received grants through the program are at work on designing and testing models to improve payment and health care delivery systems, with an eye toward health IT innovation.

“A robust health IT infrastructure is a critical component of health care transformation, and at ONC we’re committed to work with CMMI to help all states use health IT and data in new ways to achieve optimal efficiency and improved outcomes to improve the health of their residents,” the post reads.

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