Fact Sheets
About Electronic Health Records
- Electronic Health Records: Advancing America's Health Care [PDF – 271 KB]
- Get the Facts about Using EHRs to Improve Health Care in Your Practice and Community [PDF – 274 KB]
Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
- 2014 Edition Standards & Certification Criteria (S&CC) Final Rule [PDF - 1 MB]
- CMS Proposes Definition of Stage 2 Meaningful Use of Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) Technology
- Support Programs Carried Out Under HITECH [PDF - 843 KB]
Adopting Certified Electronic Health Record Technology
- Electronic Health Record Certification Program [PDF – 2.3 MB]
- Becoming a Meaningful User of EHRs [PDF – 239 KB]
- Federal Resources to Help Rural Providers Achieve Meaningful Use
Talking to Your Patients about Electronic Health Records
- What Patients Need to Know about EHRs [PDF – 553 KB]
- Talking to Your Patients about EHRs [PDF – 179 KB]
- About PHRS [PDF – 901 KB]
- Advancing the Future of Health Care with EHRs: A Look at ONC's HITECH Programs [PDF – 233 KB]
For Patients and Families
HITECH Programs
Get the Facts about:
- Beacon Community Program [PDF – 205 KB]
- State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program [PDF – 155 KB]
- Health Information Technology Extension Program (Regional Extension Centers) [PDF – 197 KB]
- SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) Program [PDF – 145 KB]
- Health IT Workforce Development Program [PDF – 276 KB]
The Nationwide Health Information Network
- ONC's Office of Interoperability and Standards [PDF – 2.4 MB]
- Standards and Interoperability Framework [PDF – 205 KB]
- Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange [PDF – 2.8 MB]
- Get the Facts about the Nationwide Health Information Network, Direct Project, and CONNECT Software [PDF – 453 KB]
- The Direct Project [PDF – 419 KB]
- Direct Project Pilot Programs [PDF – 143 KB]
- Federal Health Architecture [PDF – 3.4 MB]
- The CONNECT Open Source Solution: A Gateway to the Nationwide Health Information Network [PDF – 1.2 MB]
Health IT Topics
- Chartered Value Exchanges: Local Collaboratives Driving Health Care Reform
- Medicare Physician Performance Measures Through Local Value Exchanges