The nation’s chief advocate for IT in health care has unveiled the final version of an “interoperability” roadmap to guide industry toward more user-friendly technology that can be easily integrated ...

The protection of patients' health data is a fundamental principle deeply woven throughout federal regulators' new 10-year roadmap for interoperable health data exchange. While some experts say the ...

Last-minute comments are rolling in from healthcare IT advocates on the Office of the National Coordinator's Interoperability Roadmap; the deadline to submit is tomorrow. The Consumer Partnership for ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has received a large number of comments on its draft interoperability road map. Some commenters have praised it; others have offered criticisms.

In a letter to Karen DeSalvo, MD, HHS’ national coordinator for health IT and acting assistant secretary for health, the Academy of American Family Physicians aired its grievances over the ONC’s ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled a draft for its 10-year plan for healthcare interoperability at a joint meeting on October 15. The Office of the ...

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT should add information about Precision Medicine to its Interoperability Roadmap, the office’s Precision Medicine Task Force recommended.

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published nearly 250 public comments that it received on its draft nationwide interoperability roadmap. Stakeholders' reactions were ...

At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), members of the organization's Electronic Health Record Vendors Association (EHRVA) voted to release the ...

ONC is sunsetting its nationwide interoperability roadmap, the agency’s action map for achieving widespread data sharing across the U.S. healthcare system. ONC released its interoperability roadmap in ...

The National Quality Forum published a framework for measuring the progress of interoperable health information exchange. Within the 83-page document, NQF defined interoperability as “the ability of a ...