Health Innovation
Hear from some of the leaders on the front lines of health care advancement to discover how they are using health IT to design concrete improvements in care delivery and are working to improve our nation’s health care.
Latest Blog Posts
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Introducing Blue Button+
Ryan Panchadsaram
Since launching the Automate Blue Button Initiative
six months ago, we have been working toward two aims: -
Winners of Patient Health Record Graphic Design Contest Announced
Three months ago we challenged graphic designers to help us reimagine what the patient health record could look like. We hoped that by making a patient health record more usable, the record could help prevent medical errors, empower patients to make better health decisions, and even save lives. We received a record number of submissions from graphic designers (more than 230). Our reviewers and curators were inspired by how the entrants were able to use design to make the record more human-centered and easy to use. -
Winners of the Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge
Over the past several weeks, many of us at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Food and Drug Administration have been evaluating the submissions for the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge. KBCore of Houston was selected the winner of the challenge—and the recipient of the $50,000 prize—because the company’s patient safety reporting system best fit the criteria of the challenge to find and reduce the risks associated with patient care. Right now, finding risks through the reporting of adverse events is slow because paper-based systems may be hard to read and require transmission by fax machines. By modernizing the patient safety reporting system through the use of computer-based applications we can better shed light on medical errors and augment the discovery of new patient safety hazards more timely and efficiently.
