ONC’s Working Session on Patient Identity and Matching: More of the Same
ONC held a national working session on patient identity and matching during which a wide range of perspectives and technologies were presented.
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ONC Tech Forum 2020: An Attendee’s Perspective
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Planning
HLN attended the ONC summer Tech Forum in August 2020 which brought together over 1,500 industry experts and Federal partners to discuss technical innovations in health information technology and their potential impacts on the healthcare ecosystem.
Read more >ONC Releases Final Rule on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Revised]
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching | Meaningful Use | Planning
On March 9, 2020 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final rule on the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking Rule,” since this is the primary topic, the document actually covers a host of other issues related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >HLN Attends ONC 2020 Annual Meeting
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Planning | TEFCA
HLN’s Noam Arzt and Michael Suralik attended the tenth ONC Annual Meeting held on January 27-28 in Washington, DC. More than 1,200 individuals attended in person supplemented by remote attendees for the plenary sessions. Throughout the two-day event, ONC provided interesting speakers, engaging panels on a variety of topics, and ample time to network with colleagues and friends.
Read more >ONC 2020-2025 Strategic Plan: Not Much for Public Health
BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | ASTP/ONC | Planning
In December 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and invited public comment. The plan is intended not only to provide a roadmap to Federal agencies but also to “…provide signals to the private sector on the direction of the federal government, which may guide coordination and investment decisions” and serve as a “catalyst for activities”
Read more >CMS Promoting Interoperability in 2021: All good things must come to an end?
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Planning
We have spent years involved with the management of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, recently renamed Promoting Interoperability (PI) programs. In a nutshell, these programs were tied to the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs and provided financial incentives over a number of years to ambulatory providers and hospitals to adopt and use EHRs.
Read more >New Report: Top Challenges Facing HHS Includes Harnessing Data
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | HIE & Interoperability | Planning
In November 2019 the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a new report, Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing HHS. Divided into six major sections, this report reviews the OIG’s observations with respect to financial integrity of HHS programs, value and quality, protecting the health and safety of beneficiaries as well as the public at large, harnessing data to achieve these goals, and working across government.
Read more >Ready or Not: New Report on Protecting the Public’s Health
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | Planning | RCKMS
The Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released its 2019 edition of what it hopes will be an annual report, Ready or Not: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism last February. The ground-breaking report warns about key global challenges ahead, like the risk of a flu pandemic; the impact of weather pattern changes due to climate change; the dangers of antimicrobial resistance, and others, and tries to offer advice on how to prepare for them.
Read more >ONC Gets It Mostly Right with TEFCA 2.0 [Updated]
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | Planning | TEFCA
On April 17, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for comment. The initial version was released more than a year ago in January 2018. As before, this is in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >ONC Releases New NPRM on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Updated]
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | Planning
On February 11, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking NPRM,” since this was the primary topic anticipated, the document actually covers a host of other topics related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
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