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Inside ONC ONC Staff Profile: David Hunt – Working to Advance Patient Safety Through Health IT
David Hunt | August 24, 2023
As a medical officer and the medical director for patient safety in ONC’s office of policy (OPOL), David advises ONC on what it can do to improve the safety and safe use of health IT. He also helps his colleagues in OPOL understand how ONC’s work may affect practicing clinicians.
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Research and Scientific Advancement Advancing Genomic Data-Sharing for Research and Patient Care: Sync for Genes Project Delivers Final Report and Toolkit
Stephanie Garcia | August 21, 2023
Genomic variations can affect a patient’s risk for cancer, response to medications, and numerous other vital health outcomes. In fact, nine of the ten leading causes of death in the U.S. are influenced by genomic factors. The need for systems that help clinicians integrate genomics into care decisions has grown in importance.
Recognizing this need, in 2017 ONC launched Sync for Genes, a project that sought to advance standards and tools to effectively integrate genomic information into clinical workflows.
Health IT Certification, Interoperability Lantern: Lighting the Way on FHIR Implementation
Wes Barker | August 14, 2023
Turning Evidence into Action
The ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Cures Rule) supports patients’ and providers’ access to electronic health information through Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs). To ensure that secure, standardized FHIR APIs certified through the ONC Health IT Certification Program can be accessed and used “without special effort,” the Cures Rule included a requirement to ensure that app developers could readily lookup the service base URLs (i.e.,
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Privacy and Security Unlocking the Future of API Security in Healthcare: Collaborative Advancements and Opportunities Post APIsecure 2023
Keith Carlson | August 7, 2023
With Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs) now widely available across the United States, health IT developers and application developers should keep up-to-date on API security work and practice good API security hygiene when implementing applications and tools that leverage FHIR APIs.
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Health Data, Health IT Certification New Data on Clinician Performance and Use of Certified Health IT for Promoting Interoperability
Wes Barker | August 1, 2023
New data for clinicians reporting for Promoting Interoperability in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and their use of certified health IT are now available on healthit.gov/data. These represent an update to the data published through 2016 and representative of eligible professionals who participated in “Meaningful Use.” The data can be linked to the ONC Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) and other HHS and industry health care datasets.
This data release is a long time coming.