By Vaishali Patel & Jordan Everson – The information blocking regulations at 45 CFR Part 171 began to apply to health care providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges, and health information networks on April 5, 2021, per ONC’s recent interim final rule.
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By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Over six years ago, ONC embarked with all of you on an ambitious initiative to create a shared, nationwide interoperability roadmap (the Roadmap). In typical fashion, we produced a draft, many of you shared your comments (about this time in 2015), and we released the final Roadmap in October, 2015.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Kevin Chaney, MGS, Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, Courtney C. Rogers, MPH, Joshua C. Denny MD MS & Jon White – Precision medicine creates treatment and prevention strategies that meet patient needs by considering individual variability in their genome, environment, and lifestyle.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the Annual Meeting Recap, new Fact Sheets on FHIR API and the ONC Health IT Certification Program, updates on the Health IT Playbook, careers at the ONC & more.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing the availability of nearly $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19.
By Jim Tate – One of the more common complaints heard from providers concerns their unhappiness with EHRs. Sure, the software can boast of achieving ONC Certification but what does that really mean in the real world of patients, referrals, and communication with other providers?
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Pooja Babbrah & Jocelyn Keegan – Through recent statute and regulations, the Congress and federal government have finally given recognition to two standards from the National Council on Prescription Drug Standards for use by the industry.