Disater Preparedness and Recovery: Read more about Addabbo Family Health Center's experience afer Hurricane Sandy. Save the Date for NY HIMSS April 26th. Jinpin Ying, CIO, will present lessons learned from the storm.
NYC REACH Members have received over $30 million from Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. Join Now and let NYC REACH help your practice succeed.
Meaningful Use in Specialty Practice. Dr. Authur Abelow and NY Associates in Gastroenterology attribute their success to workflow optimization and a team approach. Read more about their Meanignful Use achievement.
Empowering Patients through Technology. The Primary Care Information Project is helping providers and patients use technology to improve care and health management. Read More about the recently lanched Kiosk Project.
Primary Care Information Project's 'Query Health' provides new insight to public health research and may assist with Stage 3 Meaningful Use. Check out Query Health in Healthcare Informatics.

News and Announcements

Mayor Bloomberg, Dr. Thomas Farley, Dr. Thomas Frieden, and Dr. Farzad Mostashari Celebrate Improved Health Through Technology in New York City

City’s Primary Care Information Project helped an additional 96,000 patients get their blood pressure under control, 81,000 improve their diabetes management, and 58,000 smokers got assistance to quit. PCIP cited as a model for the national initiative. Read the Mayor's full press release here. 

Check out PCIP achievements and read more about the event in Healthcare Informatics.

Read the latest research brief on how providers with more assistance experienced better and faster quality gains.

NYC REACH member, Urban Health Plan highlighted on the ONC's website. Read more about how this South Bronx practice develop care coordination intiatives while also meeting Meaningful Use through the help of NYC REACH.

Executive Director Brent Stackhouse speaks about NYC REACH achievements at the HIMSS 2013 conference. Go to the third audio clip from the bottom.

Don't forget to check out:
- New study published in Health Affairs; Dr. Jinpin Ying's story on how his practice recovered from Hurricane Sandy with the help of their EHR.
- Our Getting the most from Quality Measures research brief
- Latest research brief on how providers with more assistance experience better and faster quality gains.

Read more in the What's New section of the website! Sign up for the newsletter by emailing pcipcomms@health.nyc.gov.

Special Events

Watch the video of our special event "NYC Celebrates Improved Health Through Technology" on February 7th at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nyc-celebrates-improved-health-through-technology.

Speakers included Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Dr. Thomas Farley, NYC Health Commissioner; Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for HealthIT; Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. #nycHealthIT

Meaningful Use Education
On-site trainings and webinar recordings are available to NYC REACH members. Topics include: Privacy & Security in Electronic Health Records, Guide to Core Measure 15: Risk Assessment, Meaningful Use Measure by Measure, and How to Attest for Medicaid Year 1 EHR Incentive Payments. Join NYC REACH now at no cost to start taking advantage of these valuable, free trainings.