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 enforcement discretion related to ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule, careers at ONC, new Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) Funding Available.
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By Kevin Chaney MGS, Tracy Okubo PMP, Ida Sim PhD, MD & Teresa Zayas Caban – We know SDOH—the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play—impact our health, delivery of care, and coordination of services in many ways.
Statements from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Interoperability Flexibilities amid the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
By Esther Turner – Here at SPH Analytics we’ve been busy interpreting and addressing all of the fast and furious regulatory updates that have come from NCQA and CMS these past few days. We’ve compiled the ones that impact health plan CAHPS® surveys here for your reference.
ONC has released a special emphasis notice of funding opportunity to address the development and testing of data sharing functionalities to support clinical care, research, and improved health care outcomes.
On March 27 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, was signed into law. The $2 trillion package is aimed at combating the economic damage from US coronavirus crisis.
By Steven Posnack – If you’re working on a COVID-19 interoperability project, you will have the ability to share it with your colleagues through the IPG and tag it “COVID-19.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is supporting clinicians on the front lines by getting red tape out of the way so the healthcare delivery system can focus on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response.
By Steven Posnack – On Monday, March 9th 2020, the ONC released the long awaited final rule to address information blocking and update the ONC Health IT Certification Program as directed by Congress through the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.