The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) started off the new year by releasing several new specifications supporting health information interoperability...On January 3, 2022 ONC released the Version 3 Draft of the US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) which defines a core set of data for common interoperability transactions in healthcare. It defines classes of data as well as specific data elements within those classes and represents the data that can be expected to be shared at minimum between data partners. While public health is included, ONC has recently recognized that public health use cases (and therefore their data needs) differ from clinical care use cases...
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ONC Looking To Beacons For Database Of Insights From HIT Frontier
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | January 3, 2012
The 17 Beacon communities around the country that have brought providers together within regions to use health IT and clinical interventions to elicit better patient care have each demonstrated measureable improvements, including for outcomes around chronic disease and preventive screenings. Read More »
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ONC Looks To Make Blue Button Public, Boost Patient Engagement
Ed Burns | TechTarget | September 12, 2012
Blue Button may have started as a patient engagement tool that allows veterans to access their health information electronically, but government IT officials are looking to bring this type of functionality to civilian patients, too. Read More »
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ONC Offers Guidance To Providers Ineligible For MU
Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | September 11, 2013
As it works to broaden health information exchange capabilities across the care continuum, the Office of the National Coordinator has drawn up a certification guidance aimed at technology developers serving specialized providers who are ineligible for Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payments. Read More »
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ONC Patient Matching Project Moving Forward...Slowly
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | September 18, 2019
Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final report from its Patient Matching, Aggregation, and Linking (PMAL) Project, as well as an additional report describing a pilot project to test the Patient Demographic Data Quality Framework (PDDQ) to Support Patient Matching that was released several years ago. Funded from June 2015 through September 2018 by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund, PMAL was one of the activities I described in an earlier post. The Final Report reviews the four challenged of patient matching and linking that the PMAL project attempted to address...
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ONC Playbook Breaks Down Health IT, EHR Tasks and Buzzwords
Jennifer Bresnick | HealthIT Analytics | September 27, 2016
The healthcare industry seems to be largely driven by buzzwords: quick and snappy phrases that reduce complex, difficult, expensive and often confusing initiatives into keywords that may not mean much to the uninitiated. From big data and population health management to electronic health records and value-based care, these short and sweet terms have come to define the new direction of one of the nation’s largest sectors...
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ONC Posts Connect 4.0 Open Source HIE Tool
Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 12, 2013
Continuing to advance its health information exchange offerings, ONC posted Connect 4.0 on Monday and the latest iteration brings the HIE platform closer to a day when ONC might turn it over to the open source community. Read More »
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ONC Posts Tech Guide For Blue Button Plus
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | January 17, 2013
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has made available technical descriptions and guidance for its more automated version of the Blue Button feature aimed at giving patients easier access and use of their health information. Read More »
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ONC Rejects Claims Questioning Future Of EHR Certification
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | November 17, 2014
EHR certification at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is alive and well despite recent regulatory and organizational developments that might indicate otherwise, claims the recently appointed head of the Health IT Certification Program...
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ONC Releases 2018 HITECH Report
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | January 15, 2019
In early January the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued its annual report to Congress for 2018 on the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and interoperability. This report is required under the HITECH Act and is further informed by requirements of the later 21st Century Cures Act...One thing that I think is notable was a short discussion about barriers to interoperability that we have heard before. The report identifies three types: technical barriers, financial barriers, and trust barriers. Within trust barriers the report mentions legal incentives to keep data from moving (I guess that would have better been phrased as legal disincentives to sharing), but this misses the point: It is the patchwork of inconsistent and incompatible State and local laws and regulations - not intentional information blocking - that presents a bigger challenge and barrier.
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ONC Releases Final Rule on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health?
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | March 20, 2020
On March 9, 2020 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final rule on the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Referred to by some people as the "Information Blocking Rule," since this is the primary topic, the document actually covers a host of other issues related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act. In addition to the final rule itself you can read the ONC press release, a comparison between the proposed and final rules, and lots of other resources.
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ONC Releases New NPRM on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health?
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | February 25, 2019
On February 11, 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. Referred to by some people as the "Information Blocking NPRM," since this was the primary topic anticipated, the document actually covers a host of other topics related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act. Besides the initial text of the NPRM, ONC also released a set of summary slides and fact sheets to help explain the document.
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ONC Releases Several New Specifications in 2022
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | February 4, 2022
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ONC Reveals Blue Button Codeathon Winners
Diana Manos | Government Health IT | November 8, 2013
ONC on Friday named the winners of its Blue Button codeathon. Read More »
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ONC Reveals Winning Apps For Blue Button Plus Challenge
Kyle Murphy, PhD | EHR Intelligence | September 16, 2013
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded the first-, second-, and third-place finishers of the Blue Button Plus (+) Challenge, according HealthITBuzz.
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ONC Reveals Winning Apps For Blue Button Plus Challenge
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | September 16, 2013
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded the first-, second-, and third-place finishers of the Blue Button Plus (+) Challenge, according HealthITBuzz. Read More »
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