HHS official wants ‘single, unified’ EHRs for Americans
Americans should have a single, cloud-based electronic health record that follows them throughout their lives from doctor to doctor, a top tech policy official at the Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleNew ONC chief looks to slash document burden for small medical practices
Three months after the Trump administration tapped Donald Rucker to be its National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the new ONC chief sat down Tuesday to outline the future of health...
View ArticleMajor challenges remain for health IT interoperability
The road to the seamless sharing of patient data across the digital health care spectrum is not measured in miles or meters, but in the continued collaborative efforts of the public and private sectors...
View ArticleONC wants help exploring FHIR-based servers and their vulnerabilities
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is capitalizing on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to explore how to build secure, interoperable servers for sharing electronic health...
View ArticleInteroperability is passé — VA wants ‘seamless care’ with DOD
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ path to sharing integrated electronic health records with the Department of Defense has seen more twists, turns and cutbacks than a mountain road. Now that the...
View ArticleONC says interoperability exchange framework expected in December
Officials from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology held their final listening session Thursday to engage stakeholders on a new framework for exchanging electronic...
View ArticleBetter EHRs could help expand AI use in health care, report says
The health care sector could better leverage advances in artificial intelligence if stakeholders found ways to make data more accessible while improving the interoperability and quality of electronic...
View ArticleONC ‘hard at work’ on standards for big-picture data about U.S. health care
It’s often said that data is the new oil of the age, and Donald Rucker wants the health care industry, with help from the federal government, to start taking better advantage of it. The head of the...
View ArticleHead of new Veterans Affairs EHR modernization office suddenly resigns
Genevieve Morris has resigned as the head of the new office dedicated to modernizing veterans’ electronic health records, saying the program is headed in a direction that is different than she...
View ArticleHHS launches cash contest for health IT app designers
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched a pair of cash prize contests for health IT developers building apps using the increasingly popular electronic health record standard...
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