“It’s often said that data is the new oil of the age, and Donald Rucker wants the health care industry, with help from the federal government, to start taking better advantage of it.”
“The head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) says his team is in the “early stages” of developing health care data standards for population-level data to help make it more shareable across electronic health records (EHR) systems.”
“Rucker said that ONC — which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services — was working in collaboration with researchers, health care payers and the informatics nonprofit Health Level Seven International (HL7) to develop standards leveraging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR, formats to streamline batch-level processing of data.”
“Rucker also touted ONC’s ongoing support of open application programming interfaces (APIs) to…” Read the full article here.
Source: ONC ‘hard at work’ on standards for big-picture data about U.S. health care – By Carten Cordell, April 30, 2018. FedScoop.
