Share Your Expertise With Others Become a Health IT Fellow Today!

1. Share Your Expertise With OthersBecome a Health IT Fellow Today! • What is the Commitment Involved? • Fall 2014 Fellowship runs from September 1, 2014 for ~5-7 months, with potential opportunity for renewal • Tool/policy/initiative analysis est. 10-15 hours total • Est. 15 hours for all virtual meetings • In-person meeting est. 2-4 days/year What Does It Mean to Be a Health IT Fellow? What Fellows Will Do • In collaboration with ONC, create the strategic direction and goals you’d like to accomplish during the course of the Fellowship • Utilize proficiency in the use and understanding of health IT to drive care delivery transformation to provide insight on the specifics of how this reform is implemented • Identify a local provider/practice & help them leverage MU (may be planned or existing quality initiative, etc.) • Actively participate in topic-specific Fellows track, leading creation of direction and meeting bi-monthly • Work with ONC Health IT Vanguard team for in-depth profile and/or other publication • Work with local REC, HIE, and other initiatives to be a local resource for peers • Read/review at minimum three tools/Healthit.gov webpages/initiatives and provide feedback (suggested tools will be provided based on areas of interest) What Fellows Will Receive in Return • Serve as a leaders in Health IT community & MUVers at large • Training on writings, public speaking/communications skills, other topics as requested • National recognition including national platform for publication • Access to ONC Senior Leaders & SMEs on calls regularly • Opportunity to work with organizations across HHS to provideground-level feedback on providers experience with health reform initiatives Health IT Fellows are an elite group of MUVers, empowered to be an active voice in their community and on a national level, articulating specific ways leveraging meaningful use leads to better care, better health, and lower cost Health IT Fellows • Meaningful Use Vanguards • (MUVers) • are a prestigious group of: • Providers, Office staff, & Administrators • who are: • Making meaningful use meaningful in their organizations AND • Are champions for Health IT both at their organization & in their local community Expectation & Visibility Health IT Vanguard Program (Consisting of MUVers & HIT Fellows)