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Inside ONC ONC Staff Feature: JaWanna L. Henry
Jawanna Henry | July 21, 2022
How does your division/office fit into ONC?
I work in OTECH’s Technical Strategy and Analysis Division, which is responsible for the technical strategy and analysis around ONC’s key health IT initiatives and policies through external and internal coordination and collaboration, standards development, real-world implementations, piloting technologies, conducting research, data analysis, and monitoring/reporting on health IT trends.
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Health IT Certification We Can Attest: 100% Compliance for First-Time Attestations
Christopher Monk | July 14, 2022
Health IT Modules certified through the ONC Health IT Certification Program provide end users with confidence that the technology they depend on to provide care lives up to its certified capabilities. This confidence includes the actions and business practices required of Certified Health IT Developers through the Conditions and Maintenance of Certification requirements, which collectively promote interoperability and foster competition in health IT. The 21st Century Cures Act required ONC to include attestations as a Condition of Certification in the Certification Program,
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Health IT Certification, Health IT Policy, Standards New Testing Method Available for Standardized API Criterion
Robert Anthony | July 7, 2022
ONC has approved the Drummond Group’s Drummond G10+ FHIR API powered by Touchstone tool, a new alternative test method (ATM) for testing conformance to ONC’s §170.315(g)(10) Standardized API for patient and population services certification criterion. Through this new ATM, software developers will now have a new option for conformance testing in addition to the previously approved Inferno (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit. The approval of Drummond’s testing method continues ONC’s mission to further diversify the suite of test methods used as part of the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
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Health Equity, Health Information Technology Advisory Committee Key Themes from HITAC Hearing on Health Equity by Design
Kiri Bagley | June 30, 2022
As part of ONC’s efforts to embrace the concept of health equity by design, ONC’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) held a hearing in March to explore equity considerations in health IT featuring expert panelists from the fields of health equity, health IT, and health data exchange.
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Health IT Certification What’s New in the 2022 Approved Standards via Standards Version Advancement Process
Robert Anthony | June 28, 2022
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Approved Standards for 2022 for our annual Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP). The SVAP is designed to make ONC’s Certification program responsive to industry needs by allowing for better alignment to industry efforts for standards advancement, removing barriers for standards development and version updates, and improving the ability for health IT developers to provide relevant, timely, and innovative solutions to their clients.
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