Agencies Look Back at 2020 Accomplishments
HHS and its agencies share their annual reports and 2020 year in reviews. Like everything in healthcare in 2020, COVID took center stage, but agencies did continue their missions and initiatives.
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Friday at 5: Key Themes from the ONC API Showcase
Follow and join the conversations with #ONCAPI. A recent ONC virtual event, Accelerating APIs in Healthcare: A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021, featured more…
New Resources to Help Health IT Developers Understand ONC Cures Act Final Rule Requirements
By Rob Anthony – As the compliance dates for the 21st Century Cures Act: Information Blocking, Interoperability, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program Final Rule (ONC Cures Act Final Rule) draw nearer, ONC has created additional resources to assist the health IT developer community.
Taking a LEAP: Transposing the Apps Model for Individual Health Records to Population Health
By Tracy Okubo & Kenneth Mandl – Because of advances in interoperability, it’s becoming increasingly common for people and their healthcare providers to access and share information from EHRs using apps.
What’s Happening at the ONC – 01-03-21
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 the 2021 Annual Meeting, new blog posts on Information Blocking, and the ONC’s goals for the 2020-2025 Federal HealthIT Strategic Plan.
To share or not to share, what’s an exception (to information blocking)?
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – In a companion blog post I covered some foundational points about the 21st Century Cures Act’s (Cures Act) information blocking law and the regulation ONC issued to implement the law. As a quick recap, there are three categories of “actors” to whom the law applies…
Pssst…Information blocking practices, your days are numbered…Pass it on.
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Passed four years ago, the 21st Century Cures Act included a definition of “information blocking.” On behalf of the HHS Secretary, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was tasked with implementing this definition and its “exceptions.”
Say “Hey!” to Project US@ – a Unified Specification for Address in Health Care
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Standards come about for many reasons. They make things more efficient, cost effective, and safer to name a few. Often you’ll hear witty banter in the standards community (I know…right!?) about whether something is “fit for purpose.” This is also accompanied by the question, “what’s your use case?”
ONC A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021
The ONC hosted a webinar looking at the wide range of application programming interface (API)-forward policies and industry actions that are being used to accelerate interoperability of health data.