New ONC Health IT Website Design

I don’t know how many of you noticed, but ONC has done a nice redesign of the HealthIT.gov website. Here’s a screenshot for those that don’t want to click through to the site:

Besides the website being a pretty big visual upgrade to the site, I also like the way it’s been simplified and focuses on the two most important parts of the healthcare system: the providers and the patients.

I haven’t dug into all the resources really deeply yet, but at first glance it seems like they have some decent information for those who likely don’t have a deep understanding of healthcare IT and the government EHR incentive money.

Personally I’d have liked to see a little more emphasis on EHR selection as opposed to them skipping straight to the EHR implementation. Sure, many people consider EHR selection part of the EHR implementation, but I see EHR selection as so important that it’s worthy of highlighting separately.

I’ll leave an analysis of the section on Patients and Families to the ePatients out there. I’m sure they’ll be chiming in shortly.

I also love all the social media integration that’s happening on the site. My only problem with government use of social media is that they can’t use it properly most of the time. They’re so restricted on what they can and can’t say that you don’t get the full benefits of social media.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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