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HIT Related Web Links
National Organizations
- AAFP Center for Health Information Technology
The Center for Health Information Technology is the focal point of the AAFP's technical expertise, advocacy, research, and member services associated with medical office automation and computerization.
- AHIMA
The Mission of the American Health Information Management Association is to be the professional community that improves healthcare by advancing best practices and standards for health information management and the trusted source for education, research, and professional credentialing.
- AHRQ's National Resource Center for Health Information Technology
AHRQ's initiative on health information technology (health IT) is a key element to the nation's 10-year strategy to bring health care into the 21st century by advancing the use of information technology. The AHRQ initiative includes more than $166 million in grants and contracts in 41 states to support and stimulate investment in health IT, especially in rural and underserved areas. Through these and other projects, AHRQ and its partners will identify challenges to health IT adoption and use, solutions and best practices for making health IT work, and tools that will help hospitals and clinicians successfully incorporate new IT.
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
AMIA advances the informatics professions relating to health and disease. To this end it advances the use of health information technology in clinical care, personal health management, public health/population, and research with the ultimate objective of improving health.
- American Nursing Informatics Association (ANiA)
ANIA's Mission is to provide networking, education and information resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field of informatics. The field of nursing informatics includes domains of clinical information, education and administration decision support.
- Center for Health Information Technology Leadership (CITL)
Our ultimate goal is to improve quality of care. Our focus is on the impact that IT can have, and our main objective is to help healthcare providers make intelligent IT investments. We believe that with enlightened IT investments, we can build more value into the healthcare system. We can come much closer to optimal care.
- Health Information Technology Adoption Initiative
The new initiative is aimed at better characterizing and measuring the state of EHR adoption and determining the effectiveness of policies aimed at accelerating adoption of EHRs and interoperability.
- HIMSS
HIMSS is the source for healthcare IT information. HIMSS' industry intelligence empowers you to ask the right questions and implement the right solutions.
- Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), founded in 1926, is the nation's principal voice for medical group practice. MGMA's 20,000 members manage and lead more than 12,000 organizations in which more than 242,000 physicians practice.
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology provides leadership for the development and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of health care and the ability of consumers to manage their care and safety.
Health Information Exchange/RHIO Related Sites
- eHealth Initiative
The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology.
- HIMSS RHIO Federation
A RHIO (regional health information organization) is a group of organizations with a business stake in improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
- NHIN Watch
Brought to you by the editors of Healthcare IT News, NHINWatch.com is the most comprehensive Web site covering the creation of a Nationwide Health Information Network in the United States.
Standards and Certification
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) coordinates the development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the United States and represents the needs and views of U.S. stakeholders in standardization forums around the globe.
- Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
CCHIT's mission is to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by creating an efficient, credible and sustainable product certification program.
- Health Level 7 (HL7)
Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven's domain is clinical and administrative data.
- IAFP
The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians is a statewide professional association comprised of more than 86% of Iowa's doctors who specialize in the practice of family medicine.
- IMGMA
The Iowa Medical Group Management Association is dedicated to quality health care management which will assist the members to develop effective and efficient practices, thus enhancing the provision of quality health care services within Iowa.
- IOMA
The mission of the IOMA, as established by the Board of Trustees and the House of Delegates, is to advance the philosophy and practice of osteopathic medicine by osteopathic physicians and surgeons in the state of Iowa.
- Iowa HIMSS
HIMSS Mission is to lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and community affiliations.
- Iowa HIT Initiative Participating Organizations IFMC's DOQ-IT
For more than 30 years, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) has been dedicated to health care quality improvement and medical information management.
- Iowa Medical Society
The Iowa Medical Society (IMS) is the professional association for Iowa MDs and DOs. The core purpose of the IMS is to assure the highest quality of health care in Iowa through our role as physician and patient advocate.
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