ONC Launches Redesigned HealthIT.gov
By Zhan Caplan – I’m pleased to introduce our new and improved website – a resource that provides visitors with an authoritative resource on all things related to health IT.
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Visualized: Mashing up 2015 Edition Certification and Progress Attestation Requirements
By Steven Posnack, Dustin Charles, & Wes Barker – Have you ever wondered what a health IT developer’s share of meaningful use eligible hospitals looked like compared to its peers? How about the same for eligible clinicians under the QPP?
Hype to Reality: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Transform Health and Healthcare
By Teresa Zayas Caban, Kevin Chaney, Michael Painter, & Chris Dymek – Artificial intelligence (AI) – the ability of computers to learn human-like functions or tasks – has shown great promise.
Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
By Genevieve Morris – The 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in December 2016, calls on the ONC to work with federal partners, including the NIST, and the healthcare and health IT industries to provide interoperability for all.
These Genes are on FHIR!
By Teresa Zayas Caban, Tracy Okubo, & Kevin Chaney – Earlier this year, the ONC, in partnership with National Institutes of Health, announced the Sync for Genes pilots – an effort to strengthen genomic data sharing that is part of the Precision Medicine Initiative.
Reflections from a Health IT Perspective on Disaster Response
By Andrew Gettinger MD – Health IT has come a long way since Hurricane Katrina came roaring ashore in 2005. At that time, few hospitals in the region had adopted Electronic Health Records. Today, virtually all hospitals use EHRs.
Readout of NHIT Week Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Summit
By Genevieve Morris & Liz Palena Hall – National Health IT Week offers an annual opportunity to promote awareness of the value of health IT and to highlight progress made across the healthcare ecosystem. National Health IT Week took place this year from October 2nd to October 6th.
ONC Health IT Certification Program Approves the HIMSS-IIP Testing Method
By Steven Posnack – HIMSS has successfully demonstrated testing method, as part of the Immunization Integration Program (HIMSS-IIP), and can serve as an alternative to the current National Coordinator-approved method for testing.
Get Ready for a Showdown! – The Secure API Server Showdown Challenge
By Steven Posnack – In 2014, man created FHIR. In other words, that is when the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was released as a first draft standard for trial use for implementation in health IT software.