Health Affairs April 24, 2015
Editor’s note: Below, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses her view of the health information technology landscape. She outlines an agenda for her office that includes incentivizing interoperability, “standardizing standards,” and establishing shared expectations and actions around data security and privacy. This post is based on Dr. DeSalvo’s presentation at the Health Information and Management Systems Society 2015 annual conference last week.
I am optimistic about the bright future we have to leverage health information technology to enable better health for everyone in this country.
One year ago, we called upon the health IT community to move beyond adoption and focus on interoperability, on unlocking the data, so it can be put to...
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