Health IT infrastructure has made significant progress in recent years, with EHR adoption among hospitals and physicians growing. However, the development of health information exchanges and ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released its strategy for increasing the use of health information exchanges and fostering interoperability. The strategy ...

The ONC has outlined how it intends to measure interoperability, a requirement detailed in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The agency plans to use existing national surveys of ...

The goal of the interoperability rules is to move the healthcare system from an environment built by providers and payers to one in which patients are in control, according to Dr. Don Rucker, head of ...

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released Dec. 22 two proposed rules related to health data, technology and interoperability.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has recently finalized the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm ...

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, doesn’t feature a number of provisions included in the ...

A new update on a FY18 annual report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offers a glimpse as to what the agency hopes to achieve in the next few years – namely, interoperability; ...

The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders say will remove red tape and enable faster prior authorization and real-time ...

Dr. Karen DeSalvo, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has resigned from her post and will now shift her attention to her duties as the Department of ...