Interoperability, Techlab The ONC Tech Lab: Standards Coordination
Steven Posnack | March 16, 2016
Our previously published blog post about the ONC Tech Lab explained how it would guide our approach to standards and technology and help lay the operational groundwork within ONC necessary to implement the Interoperability Roadmap, our near-term health IT strategy, and the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. We described that through the ONC Tech Lab we would address four focus areas: 1) standards coordination; 2) testing and utilities; 3) pilots; and 4) innovation.
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Million Hearts Million Hearts® EHR Optimization Guides: Support for Health Care Professionals
Thomas A. Mason | March 8, 2016
As we work to improve the health of millions of Americans, ONC is excited to announce the release of the Million Hearts® EHR Optimization Guides. These guides will help healthcare professionals use their electronic health record (EHR) systems to identify at-risk patients and protect them from heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events.
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Interoperability Bridging the Healthcare Digital Divide: Improving Connectivity Among Medicaid Providers
Andy Slavitt | March 2, 2016
The great promise of technology is to bring information to our fingertips, connect us to one another, improve our productivity, and create a platform for the next generation of innovations.. Technology, when widely distributed and available, enables providers to improve patient care by distributing information and best practices and leading to better experiences of care for individuals in the health care system. And technology can make a significant difference in the rapidly modernizing Medicaid program.
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Interoperability, Techlab Investing in the Future: New Market-Ready, User-Friendly Health Technology App and Infrastructure Support
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | March 1, 2016
As a health care consumer, imagine if you were able to choose a software application (app) to create a secure snapshot of your health information, like pictures that extend over the course of your lifetime. Similarly, imagine as a health care provider if you could find apps uniquely tailored to your specialty or role on the care team and that provide the health information you need in a way that is safe, secure, intuitive, and actionable.
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From the ASTP Desk Report to Congress on Health IT Progress
Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo | February 29, 2016
Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued its annual report to Congress on health IT progress. Developing this report provided us with an opportunity to reflect on our collective health IT journey and the significance of the past year for HHS and our federal and private partners.
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