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HIA Outlines Solutions to Boost Healthcare Interoperability, Data Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

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...

CHI Comments on ONC USCDI Proposed Version 3 Data Classes

by Hannah Nelson

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...

HL7 Launches ONC FAST Accelerator to Boost FHIR Scalability  

by Hannah Nelson

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...

ONC Celebrates 18 Years of Advancing Health IT

by Sarai Rodriguez

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...

Tripathi: 2022 Pivotal for Digital Health Transformation, Health IT

by Hannah Nelson

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...

ONC LEAP Recipient Develops Framework for Patient EHR Data Consent

by Hannah Nelson

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...

HHS Strategy Aims to Improve Patient Access to Health Information

by Hannah Nelson

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...

How Health Data Standards Support Healthcare Interoperability

by Editorial Staff

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 Take Strides Toward ONC Cures Update Criteria

by Hannah Nelson

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...

ONC: Most Information Blocking Claims Have Come from Patients

by Hannah Nelson

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...

How Health IT Design, Data Standards Can Help Boost Health Equity

by Hannah Nelson

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...

Tripathi: Cures Act Provisions to Transform Interoperability in 2022

by Hannah Nelson

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,...

How ONC Ensures Certified Health IT Conformance Post Lab-Testing

by Hannah Nelson

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...

FHIR API Interoperability Relies on Standardized Endpoint Publication

by Hannah Nelson

Interoperability of Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces (APIs) requires health IT developers to publish FHIR endpoints,...

ONC Expects to Open TEFCA Interoperability Network Applications Q2

by Hannah Nelson

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 Calls for Inferno Beta-Testers of HL7 FHIR US Core IG 4.0.0

by Hannah Nelson

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 Calls for Input on Electronic Prior Authorization Data Standards

by Hannah Nelson

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 Releases US Core Data for Interoperability Draft Version 3

by Hannah Nelson

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 Releases TEFCA Interoperability Framework for Data Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

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 Adds Public Health Reporting Specifications to Interoperability Guidance

by Hannah Nelson

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...