[IEEE-bhpjobs] presentations from eHI Conference Apr 11; and EHR Toolkit available

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Carolyn Clancy of AHRQ spoke at eHI Conference: Connection Communities Learning Forum on Apr 11.
http://www.ehcca.com/presentations/cclf3/clancy.pdf
[eHI is electronic health information - patient records]

other presentations from eHI conference are at http://ehcca.com/registrations/CCBH/2006/presentations.html
agenda at http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/assets/documents/eHIConnectingCommunitiesApril2006FINALAGENDA040706003.pdf


Move Will Advance President's call for rapid adoption of EHRs

Today, eHI releases the next generation of tools to improve healthcare through HIT adoption and health information exchange.  The eHealth Initiative Connecting Communities Toolkit is a structured, how-to synthesis of principles and tools designed to equip states, regions and local communities with the information and expertise to begin or advance local health information exchange initiatives and organizations.  It offers insight into areas crucial to start-up and successful survival such as organizational structure, value creation, financing, practice transformation, quality, information-sharing policies, technical aspects and public policy and advocacy. The majority of the information in the toolkit is available free of charge to the general public. The Toolkit is available online at www.ehealthinitiative.org.

Release of the Toolkit coincides with a call for more information in the hands of healthcare consumers and faster adoption of electronic health records by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address today, as well as a number of policies emerging from Congress, the Administration and several leaders across the private sector.  More than two hundred state, regional and community-based health information exchange efforts are already underway nationwide.