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ONC Releases Draft USCDI+ Quality Data Element List for Comment

by Hannah Nelson

ONC recently published the draft USCDI+ Quality data element list for public comment. Through USCDI+ Quality, ONC seeks to extend the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to...

51 Percent of Hospitals Plan to Participate in TEFCA HIE Framework

by Hannah Nelson

More than half of hospitals are aware of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and plan to participate in the HIE framework, according to ONC analysis of American Hospital...

DirectTrust Releases Finalized Criteria for TNAP-Participant Accreditation

by Hannah Nelson

DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information, has released new criteria for its...

Large Health IT Networks Unveil Plans to Become QHIN Under TEFCA

by Sarai Rodriguez

As the Sequoia project expects to open the TEFCA QHIN application on October 3, several organizations have announced their intentions to apply. TEFCA, published earlier by ONC, outlines a...

ONC Releases Proposed Rule to Further Cures Act Interoperability Goals

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for public comment on proposals to implement certain provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and make several enhancements to the ONC Health IT...

ONC: 42% of Hospitals Reported Perceived Information Blocking in 2021

by Hannah Nelson

Over 40 percent of hospitals observed practices they perceived to constitute information blocking in 2021, according to an ONC survey of 2,092 nonfederal acute care hospitals. Researchers fielded the...

Nebraska HIE Expands PDMP Use for Public Health Surveillance

by Hannah Nelson

ONC is working to address the opioid epidemic through its support for nationwide health information exchange (HIE), including prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), according to a HealthITBuzz...

ONC Outlines Health IT Interoperability Progress in Report to Congress

by Hannah Nelson

A new ONC report to Congress outlines the significant impact of the 21st Century Cures Act on health IT interoperability. As of 2021, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals (96 percent) and 4 in...

ONC, CMS Partner on Proposed Rules for HIE Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Two new proposed rules from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to advance health information exchange (HIE) interoperability and streamline prior authorization processes. The...

ONC Toolkit Outlines Foundational Elements of SDOH Information Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Information Exchange Toolkit to support communities working toward achieving health equity through SDOH data sharing. The national SDOH data...

ONC Brief Outlines How Standardized SDOH CDS Can Support Health Equity

by Hannah Nelson

Clinical decision support (CDS) that includes social determinants of health (SDOH) factors could help advance health equity and improve health outcomes, according to an ONC brief. CDS uses computable...

95% of Certified Health IT Developers Met ONC Cures Act Deadline

by Hannah Nelson

More than 95 percent of certified health IT developers met the Cures Act Final Rule compliance deadline to provide customers with new technology, according to an ONC HealthITBuzz blog post. The Cures...

Leveraging EHR Audit Logs to Inform Clinician Burnout Interventions

by Sarai Rodriguez

Healthcare organizations are continually looking for ways to tackle increasing clinician burnout with documentation burden at the forefront of their concerns. To better understand clinician workflow...

88% of Hospitals Use Health Data Exchange, ONC Interoperability Report Finds

by Hannah Nelson

Interoperability continues to improve, with 88 percent of hospitals participating in electronic health data exchange as of 2021, according to an ONC data brief based on the AHA Information...

ONC Data Shows Increase in ePrescribing Adoption for Controlled Substances

by Hannah Nelson

Recent policy efforts have effectively increased ePrescribing for controlled substances (EPCS). However, continued work to support EHR integration of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) is...

ONC Releases Draft US Core Data for Interoperability Version 4

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released the Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 4, which proposes to add 20 data elements across a new data class and eight existing data classes. The new data...

ONC Releases 2023 Interoperability Standards Advisory Reference Edition

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released the 2023 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition, which reflects more than 150 comments received by ONC during a 60-day public comment period. The ISA is...

GAO Appoints 7 Members to Health IT Advisory Committee  

by Hannah Nelson

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has announced the appointment of seven members to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). “HITAC is composed of individuals...

ONC: Interoperable Health IT Key for HIV Prevention, Health Equity Efforts

by Hannah Nelson

Interoperable health IT can help drive health equity to end the HIV epidemic and support people living with HIV, ONC officials said in a recent HealthITBuzz blog post. Collaborative, community-based,...

Pew Focuses Health IT Efforts on Public Health Data Sharing

by Hannah Nelson

Pew Charitable Trusts is working to improve health IT infrastructure for data sharing between healthcare providers and state public health agencies. “As COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, the...