BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | Planning | TEFCA
In January 2018 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and related supporting documents, in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
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On December 11, 2017 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) sponsored a half-day “Interoperability in Action” webinar focused on Patient Matching Milestones at ONC (see agenda and slides). The webinar focused on four ONC projects from the past year.
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Two new reports have been released on interoperability in September 2017 with potential impact on public health. The reports focus on the perceived successes and barriers to health information exchange and interoperability. We draw out the relevance of these reports to public health as well as some of our own observations on these issues from a past working paper.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | Events | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use
Several hundred attended a series of panel presentations and discussions over one and a half days covering a variety of topics related to interoperability, including discussion of the business case for interoperability, semantics, national networks, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Planning
With so much transition ahead of us at the Federal, state, and local levels in 2017, it is important to begin to plan for what the Health IT landscapes will look like for the coming year (and beyond). Several key reports have come out – mostly from government sources – which are worth serious consideration for any Health IT planner.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Planning
Dr. Noam Arzt, president and founder of HLN, has been appointed to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Health Information Technology (ONC) Policy Committee (HITPC)/Health Information Technology Standards Committee (HITSC) Public Health Task Force.
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ONC launched a Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge to spur the development of new applications and partnerships to provide aggregated health data to patients.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability
In September 2015 ONC released a new report based on the activities of the HIE Personal Health Record (PHR) Community of Practice.
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ONC released the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap in October 2015 after an initial draft release for comment in January 2015.
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