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Advancements in Health IT: ASTP/ONC’s Approved SVAP Standards for 2025
Liz Turi | June 30, 2025
As part of ASTP/ONC’s annual Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP), the Approved Standards for 2025 are now available. SVAP is designed to support industry interoperability needs and enable the use of newer standards in the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program). Beginning August 29, 2025, Health IT developers participating in the Certification Program can voluntarily incorporate the 2025 SVAP standards into their Certified Health IT Modules.
Read Full Post.Advancing Cancer Care through FHIR-Based Reporting: Updates from USCDI+ Cancer
Liz Turi | January 8, 2025
Recognizing the importance of seamless data exchange in oncology, six health IT vendors have committed to supporting USCDI+ Cancer data elements (two more organizations pledged to promote cancer-related activities in their work), marking a significant step toward a more interoperable and standardized healthcare system. The White House announced these activities in March, 2024 to improve cancer care through enhanced utilization of EHR data, highlighting ASTP’s efforts around the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI),
Read Full Post.New USCDI+ Platform Now Live; Public Health Datasets Available for Comment
Liz Turi | December 7, 2023
The wait is finally over! If you’ve been following ONC’s work on USCDI+ over the past year, you’ve likely heard discussion of a new platform for organizing and building out the various USCDI+ datasets. After several months of development and testing, the new platform is now live at https://uscdiplus.healthit.gov and will be the single location where USCDI+ datasets for all domains will be located.
Read Full Post.ONC Launches New HITAC Adopted Standards Task Force
Liz Turi | June 16, 2022
Today, ONC launched the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) Adopted Standards Task Force to review and make recommendations on the existing set of ONC-adopted standards and implementation specifications. This HITAC Task Force fulfills the following 21st Century Cures Act requirement:
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