The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has launched a new initiative focused on "harmonizing the standards for clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measurement," according to Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of ONC’s Office of Science and Technology.

Open source software has been certified as a 2014 edition EHR module, according to a post on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s blog.

EHRs can be used effectively to predict the onset of sepsis, according to researchers from the University of California at Davis.

PatientsLikeMe, an online network of patients with chronic disease, recently launched its “data for good” campaign that promotes health information sharing to advance research.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance officially presented new patient-centered medical home standards during a March 10 briefing.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT have released additional draft quality measures under their Children’s Measures project.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published the tenth edition of its Healthcare Horizon Scanning System, an update that includes 35 new technologies and identifies 487 innovations that are being tracked for their potential impact on clinical care, healthcare systems, patient outcomes and costs.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced new features on its Health IT Dashboard including a comprehensive literature review on the impacts of health IT on outcomes and a related interactive site.