HIT Infrastructure November 30, 2018
A common theme of Thursday’s plenary sessions at the ONC 2018 annual meeting was health IT interoperability.
A common theme of Thursday’s plenary sessions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) 2018 annual meeting was health IT interoperability.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar kicked off the meeting, being held in Washington, DC, with a pre-recorded video in which he stressed his interest in promoting health IT interoperability.
“I have identified health IT as one of the key elements for value-based transformation. We will succeed at building an interoperable health IT system, and we will ensure that patients have access to and control over their data,” Azar said.
Azar stressed that HHS is not going to dictate...