Press Conference: Final rules to support the appropriate use of EPO (07/13/2010)

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces final rule to improve the Americans to increase the health, safety and reduce health costs through increased use of electronic health records (EHR). Present: - Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Department - Dr. Donald Berwick, Director of the Center for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) - Dr. David Blumenthal, director of ONC Health IT - Dr. Regina Benjamin , U.S. Surgeon General - Regina Holliday, patientSupporters of the features of a CMS / ONC rules is available in sheets up www.cms.gov CMS final rule is available at www.cms.gov A technical leaflet ONC standards and criteria for the rule of final certification is available at healthit . hhs.gov We allow comments to our comment policy newmedia.hhs.gov U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) www.hhs.gov