What’s New
Shoreline Conference Center
18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, WA 98155-2148
CHITA is offering a series of programs to help you move ahead with Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), regardless of where you are in the process of using EMRs. This multi-part education series will give you the opportunity to hear from professionals in WA State discuss their hands-on experience with what worked and what did not work when they implemented EMRs in their organizations.
The topics will range from auditing medical records for access, risk management concerns, clinical perspectives, state medical record laws, ROI issues, role in e-Discovery, and much more. All individuals -- physicians, nurses, health information management professionals, IT leadership and staff, administrators (in patient, hospital outpatient, and physician practice settings), legal professionals, vendors, and others impacted by the transition to and use of EMRS -- are encouraged to attend.
Registration is now open for our fourth session this summer! While we will revisit a few topics from the earlier sessions that attendees wished to explore further, our main focus will be on what you wanted to discuss the most -- Federal Stimulus funding and the HITECH Act! Check out presentations and materials from previous Forums -- on our CHITA Forums page...
Health IT Adoption Toolbox Now Available Through AHRQ’s Health IT Web Site
A new health IT adoption toolbox is accessible through the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology. Developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Office of Health Information Technology, the adoption toolbox is a compilation of planning, implementation, and evaluation resources to help community health centers and other safety net providers implement health IT applications in their facilities. It includes resources that are useful for users with different levels of knowledge and at various stages of health IT implementation. Select to access the adoption toolbox.
Alphabet Soup: CHITA Workgroup
Juggling HIPAA with other regulations? Performing multiple surveys of all your systems? Audits that never end?
There are a wide variety of standards imposed on health care organizations today. Each standard is slightly different than the rest but they do contain some common elements.
This CHITA workgroup continues their efforts to develop a tool to compare standards imposed on health care organizations. The overall goal is to compare the various standards to each other in order to understand which imposes the strictest requirements.
Please contact us for more information on the status of the tool or if you would like to participate in the workgroup...
Click here for links to some resources.
