“MCHB’s Effective Follow Up Initiative Grantees Using Health IT for New Born Screening Coordination”

This month's HRSA Health IT Website highlights the work of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s (MCHB) Effective Follow Up Program grantees. MCHB’s Effective Follow Up program funds four states (Colorado, Indiana, New York, and Utah) to facilitate the use of electronic health information exchange (HIE) for improving care coordination in State newborn screening systems.  These four States successfully implemented a statewide HIE to electronically exchange clinical information in a secure, organized, and efficient manner that greatly benefits patients, providers, and state public health agencies. In addition, these MCHB grantees have established a number of best practices for improving health outcomes. More>>

New! Oral Health IT Toolbox
Information, tools, and resources regarding oral health and health IT.

New! Pediatric Oral Health and Health IT Toolbox
Information, tools, and resources that illustrate the importance of pediatric oral health, how the stakeholders can impact oral health, and how health IT can facilitate the delivery of high quality oral health care.

New! Health IT for HIV/AIDS Care Toolbox
A supplement to the Health IT Adoption Toolkit and addresses health IT adoption issues that are specific to HIV/AIDS providers and the patients they serve.

Health IT Adoption Toolbox
Assistance and resources for the various stages in implementing Health IT

Health IT for Children Toolbox
Resources for the children's health community to integrate information technology into promoting pediatric health and well-being.

Rural Health IT and Meaningful Use Toolbox
This toolkit is designed by HRSA grantees and is intended to help rural providers find resources for health IT, electronic health records, meaningful use and related topics.

Rural Health IT Adoption Toolbox
Resources for public and private rural health providers in implementing Health IT.

Health IT and Quality Webinars
Webinar videos and information that provides safety net providers,  healthcenters, rural providers, and HIV/AIDS clinics with technical assistance presentations on a variety of topics by their safety net provider peers.

ONC leads the administration’s health IT efforts in the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. More>

Information on ONC Programs

Regional Extension Centers (REC): RECs offer technical assistance, guidance and information on best practices to health care providers for becoming meaningful users of EHRs. More>

Community College Health Information Technology Professionals Program: These health IT education and training programs are housed at Community Colleges across the country and provide intensive, non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less. More>

Beacon Community Program: These communities will demonstrate the vision of a future where hospitals, clinicians, and patients are meaningful users of health IT, and achieve measurable improvements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and population health. More>