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

• Health IT for You [PDF - 437 KB]

HITECH Programs

• Health IT Graduates for Hire [PDF - 1.3 MB]
• Beacon Communities – Lessons Learned [PDF - 1.7 MB]

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]
  • Community College Consortia
  • University-Based Health IT Training
  • Curriculum Development Centers
  • Competency Examination Program

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

Research & Innovation

• Crowd-sourcing Technology Tools Used to Improve Health [PDF - 277 KB]