ONC is sunsetting its nationwide interoperability roadmap, the agency’s action map for achieving widespread data sharing across the U.S. healthcare system. ONC released its interoperability roadmap in ...

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 ...

In presenting an updated version of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's draft interoperability road map to a joint meeting of the federal Health IT Policy and Standards Committees ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology this week launched a new initiative to plot out interoperability goals to drive the industry forward this decade. Through its ...

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 ...

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 ...