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 an updated ONC Annual Meeting Schedule, Sync for Genes Phase 5 seeks participation for demonstration sites, submissions due 2/11, & more!
Read More
By Andrew Hayden – We are pleased to ring in the new year with the release of the 8th annual update of the Interoperability Standards Advisory Reference Edition, ONC’s catalog of curated standards and implementation specifications for health information interoperability that reflects extensive feedback from industry and federal agencies.
ONC Annual Meeting will be in two parts this year. Educational sessions will be on Feb. 2-3. Registration is set up for individual sessions, attend one or all. Topics will include TEFCA, FHIR, 21 Century Cures Act, and information sharing and blocking.
By Micky Tripathi & Mariann Yeager – The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now available. Within the health information technology world, few things have been as elusive as a governance framework for nationwide health information exchange.
ONC Completes Critical 21st Century Cures Act Requirement, publishes the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement for Health Information Networks. The ONC along with The Sequoia Project announce the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA).
By Steven Posnack & Carmen Smiley – We recently announced the release of the Project US@ Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 and thereby completed our one year goal to coordinate the creation of a health care specification that could be used across the industry for representing patient addresses (mailing, physical, billing, etc.).
The American Health Information Management Association and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a companion guide to accompany ONC’s Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in collaboration with standards development organizations and health IT stakeholders, released the Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
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 an ONC Artificial Intelligence Showcase, the ONC2022 Annual Meeting & the ONC Patient Access Summit.