ASTP Events, ASTP Funded Projects, Health Data, Health Innovation, Health IT, Standards Improving Person-Centered Care in Home and Community-Based Services with FHIR
Brenda Akinnagbe | April 12, 2022
Editor’s Note: On April 14, 2022 at the ONC Annual Meeting the Missouri DMH LEAP team will share insight into their pilot demonstration and progress to go live with integrating health care and HCBS data.
Integrating data from health care and home and community-based services (HCBS) to improve health outcomes is of growing importance, especially as the U.S. population ages and the demand for long-term services and supports (LTSS) grows.
Health Information Exchange HHS’ Strategy Aims to Enable Individuals to Access and Interact with their Health Data
Lisa-Nicole Sarnowski | March 28, 2022
The 2022-2026 HHS Strategic Plan is Live!
Today, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released the HHS Strategic Plan (Plan) for fiscal years 2022-2026, which addresses the complex, multifaceted, and evolving health and human services matters facing our nation. We look forward to advancing the Plan, including the strategies to improve the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information for patients, providers, payers, and other health and health care stakeholders.
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Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, Health IT, Interoperability, Standards ONC’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead
Mike Berry | March 9, 2022
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) plays an important role in ONC activities and objectives. Required by the 21st Century Cures Act, the HITAC has been operational since 2018 and represents a wide range of health IT stakeholders who inform ONC’s policies and programs.
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Health IT Certification Program, Standards Inferno Redesigned: Easier, Faster, Extensible
John Bender | March 8, 2022
ONC is excited to announce the launch of the Inferno Framework and the (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit, the new version of the testing method for the § 170.315(g)(10) criterion in the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program). This new edition of Inferno is the product of a continued evolution of health IT standards testing and is designed to be more useful for health IT developers and easier for the health IT community to leverage for different types of standards conformance testing.
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21st Century Cures Act, Health IT Certification Program, Health IT Policy, Standards An Upcoming Milestone in Our Interoperability Journey
Jeff Smith | March 3, 2022
It’s going to be a busy year – a really busy year. In 2022, much of the promise of the 21st Century Cures Act comes to certified health IT near you.
ONC dutifully monitors industry progress towards certification to the 2015 Edition Cures Update (Cures Update), which introduces new standards and functionalities that will benefit our health care system in a variety of ways. This includes improved interoperability through secure, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) and the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 1 (USCDI v1);