Becker's Healthcare July 9, 2021
HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT unveiled new updates July 9 to diversify and account more for social determinants of health in the U.S. health data interoperability standards.
The agency’s United States Core Data for Interoperability version 2 standards are a set of health data classes and elements that healthcare organizations across the country must follow to support an interoperable health information exchange.
Five things to know about the new updates:
1. Health IT stakeholders now have clearer definitions and directions for supporting the standardized, electronic exchange of social determinants of health, sexual orientation and gender identity data elements.
2. By updating...
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