ASTP Collaboration with HL7 Progresses Standards Development
Healthcare Innovation August 21, 2024
Investment in standards has an impact on interoperability and the accessibility of electronic health information
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Alex Kontur wrote in a blog post on August 19 that the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) must ensure standards be put in place that support federal policy goals and enable developers to create interoperable health IT products.
Kontur explained that developing and adopting healthcare standards included a series of cooperative agreements between ASTP and Health Level Seven International (HL7), which started in 2015. “This collaboration has supported the development and...