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A number of new federal initiatives are designed to promote the adoption of electronic health records and health information exchange, and to create new care models and processes for chronic disease management enabled by these technologies. The health informatics efforts are being managed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), a new federal agency created by the Bush administration to implement the goal of universal adoption of electronic health records by 2014. Major commercial health insurers have adopted their own versions of some of these programs, suggesting their impact will be health system wide. Even though I describe these initiatives separately, it is important to consider their potential cumulative effect.
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For an excellent discussion of the ACO concept from all the major perspectives, I strongly recommend you read the report by the Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) in the Hudson Valley of NY State. [22]
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Braunstein, M.L., Braunstein, M.L. (2013). Federal Policies and Initiatives. In: Health Informatics in the Cloud. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5629-2_2
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