Crescent City Beacon Community: Improving Health Through Health Technology

Watch an overview of the Crescent City Beacon Community Program and learn what they are doing to improve care through health IT in greater New Orleans, LA.

To learn more: http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=3321


Gaurav Nagrath and Lisanne Brown, PhD, from the Crescent City Beacon Community discuss how their ONC Beacon Community will help reduce racial health disparities and improve control of diabetes and smoking cessation rates by linking technically isolated health systems, providers, and hospitals; and empower patients by increasing their access to Personal Health Records.

Learn more about ONC's Beacon Community Program
http://healthit.hhs.gov/Programs/Beacon

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
http://healthit.hhs.gov

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Crescent City Beacon Community
• ONC Beacon Communities
• Louisiana Beacon Community
• New Orleans LA
• Louisiana Beacon Program
• New Orleans Beacon
• HITECH
• health IT
• HHS
• ONC
• EHR
• health disparities
• diabetes
• smoking cessation
• personal health record
• PHR
• Gaurav Nagrath
• Lisanne Brown
• electronic medical records
• EMR
• patient-centered medical homes