Calling all COVID-19 Health IT Projects
By Steven Posnack – If you’re working on a COVID-19 interoperability project, you will have the ability to share it with your colleagues through the IPG and tag it “COVID-19.
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Power to the Patient: Our Record, Our Right, Our Choice
By Steven Posnack – On Monday, March 9th 2020, the ONC released the long awaited final rule to address information blocking and update the ONC Health IT Certification Program as directed by Congress through the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.
ONC The Cures Act Final Rule
Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced the release of the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program Final Rule, which implements provisions from the 21st Century Cures Act passed by Congress.
We’re One in a Million: ONC and the Precision Medicine Initiative
By Teresa Zayas Caban, Kevin Chaney MGS, Stephanie Garcia MPH, Tracy Okubo PMP & Robert Carroll PhD – The increasing availability of electronic health data in the 21st century has tremendous potential to ignite a new era of inquiry and discovery.
ONC Releases National Health IT Priorities for Research: A Policy and Development Agenda
ByTeresa Zayas Caban, Kevin Chaney MGS & Don Rucker MD – The accelerated use of health IT has led to exponential growth in the amount and availability of electronic health data. Despite this progress, certain research and scientific breakthroughs may…
Final Report Delivers a Strategy to Reduce EHR Burden
By Andrew Gettinger MD & Thomas A. Mason MD – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a comprehensive strategy to reduce the regulatory and administrative burden related to the use of health IT, including EHRs.
Key Takeaways from the ONC 2020 Annual Meeting
By Cannon Leavelle – More than 1,200 stakeholders gathered this year in Washington, DC for the ONC’s 10th Annual Meeting, Connecting Policy and Technology: Bringing the EHR to the Patient. So, what did people have to say? Here are some key takeaways from ONC’s 2020 Annual Meeting.
New Additions to the Health IT Playbook
By Thomas A. Mason MD – The ONC is releasing an updated version the Health IT Playbook, a tool to help clinical practices reduce the burden of EHRs and make the most of their health IT investment. The Playbook is an intuitive, easy to navigate…
Top Six Changes in the ISA 2020 Reference Edition
By Steven Posnack MS, MHS, & Brett Andriesen – Can you believe it’s already 2020? We may still be a few years away from flying cars, but we’ve made a lot of progress since 2010. The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA), too, has changed a lot since the first publication in 2015 –