The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently finalized the first version of its interoperability roadmap, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared ...

Last-minute comments are rolling in from healthcare IT advocates on the Office of the National Coordinator's Interoperability Roadmap; the deadline to submit is tomorrow. The Consumer Partnership for ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has received a large number of comments on its draft interoperability road map. Some commenters have praised it; others have offered criticisms.

In a letter to Karen DeSalvo, MD, HHS’ national coordinator for health IT and acting assistant secretary for health, the Academy of American Family Physicians aired its grievances over the ONC’s ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled a draft for its 10-year plan for healthcare interoperability at a joint meeting on October 15. The Office of the ...

For providers who would like guidance on how to best comply with the slew of recently finalized regulations, including the meaningful use stage 2 modifications, MU stage 3 final rules, the 2015 ONC ...

At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), members of the organization's Electronic Health Record Vendors Association (EHRVA) voted to release the ...

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT should add information about Precision Medicine to its Interoperability Roadmap, the office’s Precision Medicine Task Force recommended.

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published nearly 250 public comments that it received on its draft nationwide interoperability roadmap. Stakeholders' reactions were ...

When it comes to interoperability in healthcare, there’s been a lot of talk and not much action. So, now, despite lots of initiatives, alliances and a national roadmap, one consultant believes it’s ...

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the ...

Interoperability is among the HIMSS conference’s hottest topics for the last several years running. And that will certainly be the case at HIMSS17 in February again this year. The show floor features ...