ONC Events

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ONC gears up for HIMSS23

Kevin Eike | April 17, 2023

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2023 Global Health Conference & Exhibition (aka HIMSS23) is happening now at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. A group of ONC staff will join the broad array of health IT colleagues across government and industry for several jam-packed days of education, networking, and listening sessions. For those of you joining us at HIMSS23, here’s an overview of ONC-led sessions that you won’t want to miss!

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ONC and CDC Working Together to Strengthen Public Health Systems, Tools, and Practices that Keep Us Safe

Ryan Argentieri | September 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health staff have worked tirelessly to make sense of the extraordinary volumes of data coming at them at different times and in different ways. Because much of this information is unstructured or non-standardized, epidemiologists, scientists, and others must first bring these data into alignment before the real work can begin. The more differences there are in the data, the more painstaking the is work for people on the frontlines trying to put the pieces together fast.

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San Diego Health Connect Takes a Big LEAP Over the Barrier of Consent Management

Beth Ellinport | April 12, 2022

Editor’s Note: On April 14, 2022 at the ONC Annual Meeting, San Diego Health Connect will be demo-ing their project in the exhibit hall.
How can we improve the ability of patient to convey their preferences regarding access to and use of their electronic medical record information? San Diego Health Connect – a recipient of an ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT (LEAP) program award – developed a scalable consent framework for electronic health records to help answer this question.

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Improving Person-Centered Care in Home and Community-Based Services with FHIR

Brenda Akinnagbe | April 12, 2022

Editor’s Note: On April 14, 2022 at the ONC Annual Meeting the Missouri DMH LEAP team will share insight into their pilot demonstration and progress to go live with integrating health care and HCBS data.
Integrating data from health care and home and community-based services (HCBS) to improve health outcomes is of growing importance, especially as the U.S. population ages and the demand for long-term services and supports (LTSS) grows.

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