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  1. ONC announced plans to release $235M for health IT in "beacon" communities where providers have track record in EHR adoption.
  2. Pennsylvania seeks HIE pact with Delaware to maximize health IT funding benefits. http://bit.ly/6Nk0xb
  3. Office of National Coordinator to add chief privacy officer as part of reorganization to better meet HITECH agenda http://bit.ly/79huvZ
  4. ICD-10 and X Dot Fans: Trenkle vows to meet oncoming deadlines for new diagnostic codes; X12 HIPAA transaction specs http://bit.ly/5ytJMs
  5. Military health leaders chewing over e-dental options http://bit.ly/8PsOAR
  6. Delaware funds "trickle down" e-Rx incentives for Medicaid providers. Result: 150 percent jump in eRX adoption http://bit.ly/7AoEqJ
  7. NIST working on tool that would let health orgs assess their own HIPAA security compliance. http://bit.ly/5axS0f
  8. SSA to begin e-health record swap with VA, DOD via NHIN protocols. Blumenthal presses for NHIN for small providers http://bit.ly/4CUELm
  9. Fed says Federal Info Security Management Act (FISMA) and Health Internet are on a crash course. Regs "not scalable." http://bit.ly/uXjmt
  10. Fed CTO Chopra announces HIT blog for public to share ideas and methods about standards adoption and HIE. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/yf2j8pu
  11. ONC HIT Policy Committee wrestles with meaningful use by specialists http://tinyurl.com/yf63hrv
  12. ONC Policy Meeting Today: Blumenthal: Initial (2011) meaningful use quality measures apply to primary care; Specialists follow in 2013, 2015
  13. ONC Policy Committee Meeting-in-Progress: Blumenthal wants sharper focus on Nat'l Health Info Net; calls for setting-up NHIN-HIE workgroup.
  14. ONC will host 2nd 'Code-a-thon' in Portland, Ore., Nov. 19-20, to open Connect HIE software to programmers. http://tinyurl.com/yjek4ak
  15. Today @HIE workgroup of HIT Standards Committee: Clinical Lab Improvement Act should be changed to let patients get lab results directly.
  16. Pogue interviews Blumenthal, FYI: http://tinyurl.com/yf78uvc
  17. Chopra seeks outside advice on health IT standards http://tinyurl.com/ylbvwtb
  18. HIT Standards Panel Today: Clinical work group to focus on gaps in transition to health care vocab standards, says Kaiser's Jamie Ferguson
  19. HIT Standards Panel Today: Blumenthal urges more HC orgs to align w. National Health Info Net standards, even individual docs & consumers.
  20. Kaiser to use $54M award to sift EHRs for clues to healthcare's greatest challenges http://bit.ly/2h001J