Register for the 2022 ONC Tech Forum that begins Friday, September 9th. This year’s event will be held virtually over three consecutive “Forum Fridays” on September 9, 16 and 23. Each “Forum Friday” will focus on a specific area within health IT that ONC leads on behalf of HHS, serving as the secretary’s principal advisor on the development, application and use of health IT.
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By Chelsea Richwine & Vaishali Patel – The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure that pose challenges to effective communication between health care providers and public health agencies.
More takeaways from Beth Friedman at the first annual Civitas and Direct Trust Better Together 2022 conference in San Antonio. On the second day of sessions Beth sat in on a TEFCA update and ONC STAR program. Here are her notes.
By Mera Choi, Stephanie Garcia, & Chelsea Richwine – The Cures Act Final Rule includes regulatory requirements to implement secure, standards-based application programming interfaces. To support the acceleration of API adoption in health care, ONC has published a series of perspective reports that focus on key stakeholders and their views on APIs.
By Micky Tripathi & Steven Posnack – As our nation transitions to a digital healthcare system, our stakeholders are discovering new opportunities for using health information technology to advance health care delivery, public health, and research to improve people’s lives.
By Andrew Hayden & Sherilyn Pruitt – The annual comment period for the Interoperability Standards Advisory will be open from 7/28 – 9/30. Comments, suggest revisions, and propose additions are for the 9th Annual ISA Reference Edition in January 2023.
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Included updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
By Adam Wong & Wei Chang – ONC is excited to announce “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Enable Health Information Exchange to Support COVID-19-Focused PCOR,” a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund project implementing new technologies and standards to unlock the potential for health information exchanges (HIEs) to support research.
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 an EHI Sharing Workshop this week, a new data brief showing the latest data on interoperable exchange of health information among office-based physicians in 2019, & new Approved Standards for 2022.