HealthIT Answers May 16, 2021
By Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S. Deputy National Coordinator for Health
One of the fun parts about working at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is that in addition to our impactful, near-term work, we also have the chance to point our eyes to the horizon and envision a better future. Throughout my tenure at ONC, different policy, technology, and legislative moments along with ample public feedback have shaped our actions. Yet, there always comes a time to ask, “what’s next? what are we driving toward? how do we turn actions into outcomes?” Now’s that time.
The early days were informed by Executive Order 13335 from 2004 and the American Health Information Community (ONC’s first advisory...