HealthIT Answers March 14, 2022
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By Jeff Smith, Tony Myers and Papia Paul, ONC

It’s going to be a busy year – a really busy year. In 2022, much of the promise of the 21st Century Cures Act comes to certified health IT near you.

ONC dutifully monitors industry progress towards certification to the 2015 Edition Cures Update (Cures Update), which introduces new standards and functionalities that will benefit our health care system in a variety of ways. This includes improved interoperability through secure, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) and the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 1 (USCDI v1); enhanced patient safety with a new e-prescribing standard; and support for other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, such as CMS’s Promoting...

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