Information Blocking Unveiling the Redesigned SITE: A Unified Testing Hub for Health IT Developers
Erin Little | December 12, 2024
ASTP has taken your valuable feedback and we are proud to unveil the newly redesigned Standards Implementation & Testing Environment (SITE)—your all-in-one testing hub for the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program). The updated SITE platform offers a more seamless and efficient user experience, empowering users to take full advantage of the system’s tools and resources. Whether you are validating certain interoperability capabilities or testing against certification criteria,
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Interoperability, TEFCA What Makes TEFCA Different: New Standard Operating Procedure Strengthens Trust
Micky Tripathi | December 10, 2024
The “T” in Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA™) is an important part of what drives our work. So too is the public-private engagement we have created over the past seven years. As we launched TEFCA last year we did so with the expectation that we would need to make iterative adjustments over time to help it grow. That’s why we’ve recently released a new standard operating procedure (SOP) to guide how organizations seeking to participate in specific “Exchange Purposes” within TEFCA are vetted (see: Vetting Process SOP).
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A Decade of Data Examined, Health Data, Interoperability A Decade of Data: Progressing Patient-Centric Care through Health IT
Wes Barker | October 31, 2024
Earlier this year we celebrated the 20th birthday of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (hereafter ASTP) and reflected on the transformative impact of health IT on patient care delivery in the US. These developments have been instrumental in creating a more connected and patient-focused health care system, supporting our goal of seamless data exchange between health care providers, and enabling real-time access to critical patient health information.
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Health IT, Information Blocking IB the API, I think not
Dan Healy | October 23, 2024
In a recent blog post, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Micky Tripathi described our agency’s growing concerns about potential lack of compliance with statutes and regulations related to information sharing. That blog post covered issues related to developers of certified health IT and ASTP/ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) API requirements. In this blog post we share concerns that have been brought to our attention pertaining to potential violations of the information blocking regulations by health care providers as well as developers of certified health IT.
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Interoperability Getting Real about Information Blocking and APIs
Micky Tripathi | October 8, 2024
Our country has made tremendous strides and invested billions of private and public dollars in establishing the digital future of the health care system. We are thus highly concerned about ongoing and recent reports that we have received about potential violations of both the letter and spirit of the various laws and regulations now in place to ensure information-sharing to improve our health care system and enhance the lives of all Americans. In this blog post we describe some of the issues that have been brought to our attention and the steps that we are taking to address them.
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