Source: Health Data Management
Industry groups and watchers have wide respect for the accomplishments over the past two decades of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Despite concerns about achieving interoperability across the industry and sometimes overly optimistic expectations about the industry’s ability to manage change, there’s widespread appreciation for the amount of change accomplished by the federal office. “Unquestionably, ONC has changed the landscape of health IT adoption and what health IT looks like today,” says Leigh Burchell, vice president of government affairs and public policy for Altera Digital Health and a longtime executive committee member for the Electronic Health Record Association.