By Kathryn Marchesini, Jeff Smith, & Jordan Everson – When talking about artificial intelligence today, people are usually referring to predictive models—often driven by machine learning techniques—that “learn” from historic data and make predictions, recommendations, or classifications (outputs) which inform or drive decision making.
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By Ryan Argentieri & Jen Layden – The ONC and CDC are working together to strengthen Public Health Systems, tools, and practices that keep us safe.
By Ryan Argentieri, Matthew Rahn, Jasmine Agostino, & Alek Sripipatana – A few months ago, the ONC launched the USCDI+ initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing United States Core Data for Interoperability.
By Avinash Shanbhag & Rob Anthony – The moments we’ve all been waiting for since 2016 are fast approaching: the 21st Century Cures Act infrastructure is coming into place in 2022! The Cures Act laid out a vision for a rich health IT ecosystem of standards-based APIs and nationwide health information networks to securely…
By Chelsea Richwine & Vaishali Patel – The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure that pose challenges to effective communication between health care providers and public health agencies.
By Mera Choi, Stephanie Garcia, & Chelsea Richwine – The Cures Act Final Rule includes regulatory requirements to implement secure, standards-based application programming interfaces. To support the acceleration of API adoption in health care, ONC has published a series of perspective reports that focus on key stakeholders and their views on APIs.
By Micky Tripathi & Steven Posnack – As our nation transitions to a digital healthcare system, our stakeholders are discovering new opportunities for using health information technology to advance health care delivery, public health, and research to improve people’s lives.
By Andrew Hayden & Sherilyn Pruitt – The annual comment period for the Interoperability Standards Advisory will be open from 7/28 – 9/30. Comments, suggest revisions, and propose additions are for the 9th Annual ISA Reference Edition in January 2023.
By Adam Wong & Wei Chang – ONC is excited to announce “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Enable Health Information Exchange to Support COVID-19-Focused PCOR,” a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund project implementing new technologies and standards to unlock the potential for health information exchanges (HIEs) to support research.