Updates from the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
These are a series of ongoing updates from Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourages you to share this information as we work together to enhance the quality, safety and value of care and the health of all Americans through the use of electronic health records and health information technology.

CMS EHR Incentive Programs

CMS Launches Official Website for EHR Incentive Programs (6/25/10) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the official website for the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. The website provides up-to-date, detailed information about the EHR incentive programs, including who is eligible, how to register, meaningful use, and upcoming EHR trainings and events.  

For more information, please visit the official web site for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs below:

Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care Program

Section 3016 of the HITECH Act authorizes the creation of a program to assist in the establishment and/or expansion of education programs designed to train a highly skilled workforce of health information technology (health IT) professionals to effectively put in place and enable the use of secure, interoperable electronic health record systems.

The program seeks to rapidly create HIT academic programs at Community Colleges or expand existing ones.   This may be offered through traditional on-campus instruction or distance learning modalities, or combinations thereof.

Within the state of Mississippi, Hinds Community College and Itawamba Community College were two of the 82 community colleges nationwide to be selected as program awardees.  For course offerings, please visit their sites below: