From The Health IT Buzz blog – If left unaddressed, the social needs experienced by an individual may lead to poor health outcomes and more time spent in hospitals and interacting with the health care system. Hospitals, therefore, are uniquely situated to help address social needs and mitigate social risk factors by screening for…
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Hear from ONC’s Sherilyn Pruitt on building a future public health IT workforce. Sherilyn Pruitt is a senior advisor within ONC’s office of technology and is also the co-lead for the Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program.
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 a new dataset on certified technology use for clinicians reporting for Promoting Interoperability in 2019, 2020, and 2021, the USCDI v4 is now published, & a Navigating Federal Employment Workshop webinar.
By Alex Mugge & Kyle Cobb – An interoperable U.S. healthcare system depends on collaboration across diverse groups inside and outside of government, working in a complex environment toward a common goal. The ONC and CMS play different but complementary roles to advance health data interoperability.
By Rob Anthony – ONC published the Approved Standards for 2023 as part of ONC’s annual Standards Version Advancement Process. The SVAP is designed to make the ONC Health IT Certification Program (the Program) responsive to industry needs and better aligned with standards version advancement.
Some recent studies and reports that caught our eye from JMIR, Trilliant Health, Cigna, Kaiser Family Foundation, ONC, Sage Growth Partners, Wolters Kluwer, Pure Storage, NEHII, FII Institute, Vizient, HealthCare.com, and Turquoise Health.
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 final rule on enforcement of ONC blocking rule, a new Data Brief, and an ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable webinar.
By Anmer Ayala – In 2020, the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients and the American College of Cardiology were awarded funding through ONC’s Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program.
HHS-OIG posted its final rule implementing information blocking penalties to its website. The final rule establishes the statutory penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act. If OIG determines that an individual or entity has committed information blocking, they may be subject up to a $1 million penalty per violation.