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Health IT Accelerating Precision in Public Health Surveillance and Response
Paula Braun | June 10, 2020
When our communities face a health crisis, the research, clinical, and public health worlds come together and collaborate. Public health programs drive toward prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the population, but they need the support and guidance of data-driven research behind them every step of the way. While most of the data needed to accelerate research, and clinical and public health delivery come from traditional sources—such as clinical encounters and lab tests—data feeds from nontraditional sources ,
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Health IT Join Us at ONC’s Virtual Tech Forum on August 10-11, 2020
Avinash Shanbhag | June 9, 2020
Have you ever found yourself asking any of the following questions?
- What advances are needed in application programming interfaces (APIs) to support faster, better and more scalable access to health information?
- What technical underpinnings would support future nationwide, trusted exchange?
- How can technology seamlessly interoperate across the continuum of care?
- How can data standards evolve to support expanding needs of healthcare?
Interoperability The C-CDA Scorecard Continues to Improve C-CDA Implementation across Health IT Settings
Matthew Rahn | June 3, 2020
ONC is excited to announce the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Scorecard 2.0. The updated Scorecard includes Health Level Seven International (HL7) approved best practices, quantitative scoring, a new user interface, updated issue checking, and performance is improved by 20 percent.
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Health IT A Look Ahead: Year Two for ONC and the Recognized Coordinating Entity for TEFCA
Mike Berry | May 26, 2020
In August 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) awarded a cooperative agreement to The Sequoia Project to serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). The Sequoia Project has made great strides in meeting the goals and objectives outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. To keep this momentum going, ONC has committed approximately $1.1 million in year-two funding to our cooperative agreement with The Sequoia Project.
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Precision Medicine Empowering Patients to Advance Precision Medicine, One EHR at a Time
Kevin Chaney | May 18, 2020
Electronic health record (EHR) systems store incredibly rich data about individual patients, but historically, individuals have been unable to access this information easily and share it for research. However, use of patients’ data could accelerate scientific discovery and progress toward precision medicine. Permitting patients to connect and share their data with researchers—while maintaining the security and privacy of those data—is just one of the many benefits to the research community of the ONC‘s Cures Act Final Rule released in March 2020.
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