“The Department of Health and Human Services continues to issue guidance furthering the nationwide interoperability of health IT with the release of new data classes and elements for electronic exchange Wednesday.”
“A draft Version 3 of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI v3) adds the health insurance information and health status classes and 20 elements between them and the laboratory, patient demographics and procedures classes.”
“Interoperable networks have been on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s wishlist since its creation in 2004 because they allow everything from federal agencies to health-care providers to share the data HHS is prioritizing in real-time to respond to disease outbreaks and prevent future pandemics.”
“ONC added classes and elements supporting exchange of social determinants of health and sexual orientation and gender identity data with USCDI v2 in July. More recently ONC released a technical specification for consistently formatting patient addresses in early January and a framework for securely sharing clinical data between health information networks Tuesday, on a path to establishing a nationwide exchange for public health and personal access purposes…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS adds health data classes and elements for nationwide sharing – By Dave Nyczepir, January 19, 2022. FedScoop.
