By Micky Tripathi & Thomas A. Mason – This National Minority Health Month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is highlighting its commitment to health equity for all. Achieving health equity requires a systemic change in health care.
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By Seth Pazinski, Peter Karras, & Kim Lundberg – Health IT has become integral to health care delivery and this trend has accelerated since the passage of the HITECH Act of 2009. Hundreds of thousands of physician offices, hospitals, and health systems now use ONC-certified health IT to store, process, access, exchange, and use EHI, setting the groundwork for nationwide interoperability.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of March that we think deserve sharing again.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (the draft Plan) for public comment.
By Seth Pazinski, Peter Karras, & Dustin Charles – The draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (the draft Plan) is now open for public comment. The public comment period on the draft Plan ends on May 28, 2024 at 11:59:59 PM ET. The draft Plan is a comprehensive and strategic effort developed by ONC in collaboration with more than 25 federal organizations.
We have rounded up our usual suspects to comment on the ONC and their recent communication on looking forward, HTI-2 and their commitment to furthering the vision of better health enabled by data. Here is what they had to say.
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 upcoming quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable, the upcoming USCDI+ Cancer Data Exchange Summit, the HITAC Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023, & more.
Melinda (Mindy) Kidder recently joined ONC as the new chief nursing officer (CNO). She brings more than 30 years of experience in patient care, nursing management, informatics, and complex project management in diverse healthcare organizations.
By Micky Tripathi – On the heels of the release of the HTI-1 Final Rule, we are now developing the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability Proposed Rule (HTI-2.) The 2nd rule in ONC’s series of Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability rules.