Join us this Thursday, December 12th for Sharing Health Data: Challenges to Solve – Lessons to be Learned, virtual event. Starting at 1pm ET with keynote from Micky Tripathi, ASTP and National Coordinator on the state of interoperability. Learn more about the event sessions.
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Join us December 12th for Sharing Health Data: Challenges to Solve – Lessons to be Learned, virtual event. This session @2pm ET hear radio host Jim Tate, Manifest Medex CEO Erica Galvez, and J2 Interactive CTO Mickey Yalon discuss what successful HIEs are doing.
By Karen B. DeSalvo & Erica Galvez – This is a unique time in health care. Scientific and technological advancements made by you, our partners across the health industry, have been rapidly transforming health and health care in the nation. More than 3 million individuals have accessed their electronic health information using ONC’s Blue Button tool.
By Erica Galvez – Recent ONC analyses from a nationwide survey of non-federal acute care hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlight the near universal adoption of EHRs by hospitals and significant increases in hospitals’ electronically exchanging health information with outside providers compared to past years.
By Matthew Swain & Erica Galvez – Advancing secure and interoperable exchange is a core component of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 and the focus of the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
On October 15, 2014 the ONC convened the first joint meeting of the Health Information Technology Policy and Standards Committees. We spent the day discussing interoperability in the health information ecosystem.
From the ONC Buzz By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, and Erica Galvez/Interoperability and Exchange Portfolio Manager, ONC When we issued our interoperability vision paper,…