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ONC Promotes Public Health IT Workforce Development, Diversity

September 27, 2021 - ONC has awarded $73 million in cooperative agreements as part of its Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) which aims to train the next generation of health IT talent to equip the nation for future public health challenges. Funded through the American Rescue Plan and announced earlier this...

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ONC Awards $2.7M to Projects to Advancing Healthcare Data Sharing

by Samantha McGrail

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced four awards totaling over $2.7 million to projects addressing the greatest healthcare data sharing...

Final Interoperability Rule Has Implications for APIs, FHIR

by Samantha McGrail

Earlier this week, the Office of the National Coordination for Health IT (ONC) announced a new interoperability rule which requires certified health IT developers to establish secure, standards-based...

Most Healthcare IT Execs Unaware of Proposed Interoperability Rules

by Fred Donovan

Most U.S. healthcare IT executives are unfamiliar with healthcare interoperability and information blocking rules being developed by HHS, according to new research from Accenture. Only 18 percent of...

Interoperable IT Infrastructure Vital to Link Healthcare, Social Care

by Fred Donovan

The United States needs to develop interoperable IT infrastructure that will facilitate the integration of healthcare and social care, advised a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,...

AHIMA Warns About Privacy Risks in ONC Information Blocking Rule

by Fred Donovan

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) along with six other healthcare organizations are warning that the proposed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

ONC Ponies Up Close to $2M for Healthcare Interoperability Work

by Fred Donovan

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded close to $2 million to two organizations in order to fund their work in improving healthcare...

ONC Selects Sequoia Project to Support Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has inked a cooperative agreement with The Sequoia Project to support nationwide healthcare interoperability. The Sequoia...

Key Steps to Achieve Increased Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

As organizations ponder complying with HHS proposed interoperability rules, they should consider moving beyond regulatory requirements to realize greater healthcare interoperability, advised a new...

Organizations Face Several Health Data Interoperability Hurdles

by Fred Donovan

There are four main hurdles regarding health data interoperability, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC),...

Cloud Providers Reaffirm Support for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce reaffirmed their commitment to healthcare interoperability, particularly the HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)...

HRSA Doled Out $243M in Health IT Grants to Health Centers

by Fred Donovan

HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded $243 million to health centers in order to upgrade their health IT between fiscal years (FY) 2011 and 2017, according to a...

Rucker: Healthcare Interoperability Stymied by Contracts, IPR

by Fred Donovan

Contractual and intellectual property rights (IPR) are being used to limit access to electronic health information (EHI) and to prevent competition from developers of healthcare interoperability...

HHS Issues Documents to Support Nationwide Health Data Exchange

by Fred Donovan

HHS has issued three documents for public comment that are designed to support network-to-network health data exchange nationwide. The three documents are second drafts of the Trusted Exchange...

HHS Wants to Slash ONC Funding by 28% Despite Cures Act Work

by Fred Donovan

In the Trump administration’s FY 2020 budget request, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to cut ONC’s budget by 28 percent, despite its heavy workload in...

ONC Proposed Rule ‘Turning Point’ for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The ONC proposed rule supporting the use of the Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for healthcare application programming interfaces (APIs) is...

Broad-based Panel Tackles Healthcare Interoperability Challenges

by Fred Donovan

Timed to coincide with the release of a new report by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) and Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a broad-based panel of public and private sector representatives at...

ONC Proposes Certification Criteria for Developers of Healthcare APIs

by Fred Donovan

ONC is laying out certification criteria for app developers in developing standardized healthcare APIs to allow individuals to securely access structured and unstructured electronic health information...

US Government Shutdown Delays OMB Review of ONC Health IT Rule

by Fred Donovan

The US government shutdown, which is in its fourth week, is likely to further delay an ONC health IT rule being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), observed AMIA Vice President...

Health IT Advisory Committee Cancels Meeting Due to Shutdown

by Fred Donovan

The Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) has cancelled its monthly meeting, scheduled for Jan. 23, due to the US government shutdown, reported Politico. HITAC was established in 2017 under the 21st...

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