Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
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By Teresa Zayas Caban & Kevin Chaney – PMI will advance the nation’s ability to accelerate scientific discovery and improve clinical care through an innovative approach that takes into account individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles.
The following is news reported from the ONC. News includes participation in this year’s Health Datapalooza, Health Data and Standards Code-A-Thon, Health Data Provenance Challenge, and FHA Learning Seies.
With little to no fanfare, Donald Rucker, M.D., the former vice president and chief medical officer at Siemens Healthcare, has been selected as the next National Coordinator for the Department of HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
By Steven Posnack – Health data often travels a long distance before it gets to its final destination. Additionally, data can be represented in a number of different ways.
CMS invites vendors and stakeholders to review and provide feedback on draft eCQM measure packages that include logic and header changes for eCQMs under consideration for CMS quality reporting and payment programs.
Join ONC for the inaugural Interoperability in Action Day highlighting many of the successful standards and technology progress advancing the exchange of health information over the past year.
The Department of Health and Humans Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the Phase 2 winners of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge.
By Lucia Savage JD – Important work to ensure the health system is functioning properly is conducted by a wide variety of entities at the federal, state, and local level.