While advances in technology have helped improve data exchange, the healthcare industry continues to lag on the interoperability front, according to a Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) report that...
The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) provided comments to the ONC on its Draft (v3) US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and its ongoing USCDI expansion process (draft...
Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced that ONC's FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) will transition into an HL7 FHIR Accelerator.
ONC originally founded the FAST project to define a common...
On the 18th anniversary of the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Deputy National Coordinator Steven Posnack released a statement reflecting on the agency’s past...
2022 is a pivotal year in the digital health transformation, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.
At the virtual ONC annual meeting on April 13, Tripathi noted that over...
San Diego Health Connect, a recipient of an ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT (LEAP) program award, developed a scalable consent framework to improve patients’ ability to convey...
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2022-2026 aligns with the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and focuses on improving patient access to...
Achieving true healthcare interoperability across the care continuum is a top priority for providers, payers, and other key industry stakeholders.
Seamless, comprehensive data sharing is particularly important for healthcare organizations...
Health IT developers are making steady progress in fulfilling the new privacy and security certification criteria for the 2015 Edition Cures Update, according to a HealthITBuzz blog post written by ONC...
Patients have submitted the vast majority of information blocking claims since the ONC interoperability rule went into effect in April 2021, according to ONC data.
The 21st Century Cures Act prompted...
While health IT cannot address all of the factors that drive health disparities, ensuring technology is designed with health equity in mind is crucial, ONC officials noted in a HealthITBuzz blog...
Key provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act will help transform healthcare interoperability in 2022, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.
In a HealthAffairs article,...
ONC aims to help ensure certified health IT remains compliant with program requirements after certification testing through a conformance review process.
When end-users report suspected issues with...
Interoperability of Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces (APIs) requires health IT developers to publish FHIR endpoints,...
ONC and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, Inc., recently announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA) interoperability...
ONC has called on health IT developers to leverage Inferno, ONC’s testing suite for the “standardized API for patient and population services” certification criterion, to test the...
ONC has released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public input on electronic prior authorization data standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria that could be adopted...
ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Draft Version 3 (USCDI v3) which includes new data classes that look to advance health equity and public health data...
ONC and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, Inc., have announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA) interoperability...
ONC’s 8th annual update of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition includes new specifications related to ePrescribing and public health reporting, according to a...