HealthIT Answers May 10, 2021
By Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S. Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Over six years ago, ONC embarked with all of you on an ambitious initiative to create a shared, nationwide interoperability roadmap (the Roadmap). In typical fashion, we produced a draft, many of you shared your comments (about this time in 2015), and we released the final Roadmap in October, 2015.
At a time when consistent direction was needed, the Roadmap sparked action and sharpened dialog across a number of technology and policy dimensions. Indeed, having worked on the Roadmap, it’s hard to believe that we’re almost midway through 2021. Like many of you, I’ve got my wish-we-could-haves, but on the whole the entire health IT ecosystem has made...