The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) submitted comments to the federal Dept. of Health and Human Services on June 11 outlining its feedback on the draft description of the Health IT Regional Extension Center Program, a key new initiative included in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

At the January 29, 2009 meeting of NYeC's Policy and Operations Council, the New York State Department of Health announced that it had approved two other work products emerging from the Statewide Collaboration Process. These items are as follows:

NYeC recently hosted an eight-session education series, designed to enhance and support EHR implementation and adoption across New York State. The sessions, led by expert consultants and clinicians, followed a curriculum based on the "EHR Implementation Value Chain". Below you will find the materials from all the sessions.

The target audience included project leads, project managers and implementation staff from HEAL and MSSNY projects, as well as members of other organizations involved with EHR implementation and use in New York state.

NYeC is pleased to announce that the initial set of policy and technical requirements (sometimes referred to as Version 1.0) for the RHIOs and CHITAs participating in the HEAL NY Phase 5 Health IT grants program have been approved by the NYeC Board and the Department of Health (DOH).