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All Over the Map

Newly updated to include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

Medi-Cal Transforms

Medi-Cal is the main source of health insurance for one in five Californians. An updated report gives an overview of the program's key features, describes how the program is evolving, and examines the challenges ahead.

Obama Care in the Second Term

CHCF is a long-time sponsor of the UC Irvine Forecast Conference. A webcast of this year's conference on health policy in President Obama's second term is now available.

EHRs and PHRs

Thursday, May 10, 2012

ONC Unveils Interactive Dashboard on Grants, Health IT Activities

On Wednesday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT launched a new interactive dashboard offering information about the agency's grant programs and other health IT activities across the U.S., NextGov reports (Pulley, NextGov, 5/9).

Dashboard Details

The Health IT Dashboard includes:

  • Information about all ONC grant programs; and
  • Detailed performance data on regional extension centers and the Community College Consortia program.

The dashboard also includes more than 150 maps depicting ONC data at different regional levels (Walsh, CMIO, 5/9). 

Victor Lazzaro -- performance officer and director for dashboard projects at ONC -- said, "The release of the Health IT Dashboard is a significant milestone, and we are glad to welcome the website as a tool for delivering key data to ONC's stakeholders and the interested public" (Miliard, Healthcare IT News, 5/9).

Future Plans

In June, ONC plans to launch an electronic health record and health information exchange dashboard featuring more state-level maps, charts and data showing trends in physician and hospital adoption of health IT (CMIO, 5/9). 



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