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