The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is developing a new concept, called “health equity by design,” to use and collect data in order to better identify health inequities and create mechanisms to mitigate health inequities.
“It’s making sure that health equity is a forethought, not an afterthought, as we implement, design and build technology solutions — in the same way that there’s privacy by design and security by design — that it’s essential that we think about health equity by design when it comes to information technology systems,” ONC Chief Medical Officer Tom Mason said at the HIMSS Conference in Chicago Thursday…
Ryan Argentieri, deputy director of the Office of Technology at ONC, said that APIs are not possible without a clear understanding and consistent definition of what the data needs to look like, which then enables the efficient exchange of information. This is where the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) comes into play.
The USCDI is a standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange. ONC recently released a draft fourth version of USCDI and plans to publish that in July 2023… Read the full article here.
