Interoperability

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Looking Forward: HTI-2 & ONC’s Commitment to Furthering the Vision of Better Health Enabled by Data

Micky Tripathi | March 12, 2024

In the last three and a half years, we have been hard at work advancing the way interoperability supports the care environment. From Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) implementation to the HTI-1 Final Rule to information sharing initiatives, we look at all facets of the interoperability prism in our work. And, our work continues. On the heels of the release of the HTI-1 Final Rule, my team is hard at work on developing the Health Data,

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Improving Cancer Care Through Better Electronic Health Records: Voluntary Commitments and Call to Action

ONC | March 5, 2024

This blog post was authored by our colleagues at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is cross-posted here on the Health IT Buzz Blog.
The Biden Cancer Moonshot aims to support and center patients and caregivers, and President Biden has made it clear that the American people deserve a health care system that they can rely on. That includes a system of electronic health records that gives patients and doctors the information they need to provide excellent patient care and improve outcomes.

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Unveiling Inferno Testing Support for Payer Data Exchange API Standards

Ashley Hain | February 22, 2024

ONC has hit a new milestone in advancing interoperability across the care continuum. A new series of voluntary tests to support standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) leveraging Health Level Seven® (HL7®) implementation specifications developed via the Da Vinci project and the CARIN Alliance are now available in the ONC-developed Inferno testing tool. The tests are open source, with the source code freely available for use by the public on GitHub.

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FHIR Roadmap for TEFCA Exchange V.2: FHIR APIs are on their Way into TEFCA Exchange

Chris Muir | January 3, 2024

On December 11, 2023, ONC and the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCETM), The Sequoia Project, released the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)® Roadmap for TEFCASM Exchange V.2.  This version updates the previous roadmap and continues the momentum already established by providing more details and guidance for the future of FHIR in TEFCA.

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New USCDI+ Platform Now Live; Public Health Datasets Available for Comment

Brett Andriesen | 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.

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