ONC announced the winners of the Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge. A Blockchain—most commonly associated with digital currency—is a data structure that can be timed-stamped and signed using a private key to prevent tampering.
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ONC Challenges designed to foster private sector innovation to enable consumers and providers to easily and securely access and share electronic health information. Phase 2 remains open to all potential applicants with submissions due November 7, 2016.
Calling all developers and entrepreneurs. Check out these healthcare related challenges for prize money from CHIME, HHS Idea Lab, Aetna Foundation, eHealth Initiative, and PriMed.
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A recent story characterized the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as both “the federal office in charge of a massive rollout of electronic health records” as well as “an office whose primary role has been cheerleader” for health information technology. Well, which is it?
To be fair, since David Brailer’s time, the National Coordinator for Health IT has had two distinct roles:
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