American Public Univeristy and CEO, Dr. Wallace Boston, were recently recognized for their leadership in distance education by the New York Times Newspaper.
The article highlights the University's recent exlcusive agreement with the WalMart Organization to provide education opportunities for employees of the country's largest employer.
Maryland is one of the first three states to receive approval from the federal government on its State Health IT Plan.
On April 6, 2010, the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) was awarded $5.5 million from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to become Maryland's only Regional Extension Center (REC). The Extension Program will offer "technical assistance, guidance, and information on best practices to support and accelerate health care providers’ efforts to become meaningful users of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)." With this award, CRISP will enter into contracts with Maryland Managed Service Organizations (MSOs) in order to provide Direct Assistance support to some 1600 primary care providers statewide. Nationally, this ambitious program strives to bring EHR support to a minimum of 100,000 primary care providers using 70 RECs within the next two years.
For the past year, the health IT industry has been energized by the prospect of more than $30 billion being poured into health IT projects from money allocated in the HITECH sections of the stimulus bill. Following more than a year of committee discussions, rulemaking, and clarifications around the bill, the industry is beginning to reap the benefits as awards are being made by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
AI team members were captured by Baltimore Magazine attending the Truman Capote-themed "Black and White Party," a friend and fund raising event for the Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) made its second and final tranche of statewide health information exchange (HIE) grants today, which included a grant to Maryland.
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