Healthcare DIVE May 14, 2019
Dive Brief:
- A key advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT voted unanimously Monday to recommend adding a slew of demographic data to the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) dataset, a standardized set of health data that would be interoperable nationwide under the proposed HHS interoperability rules.
- The Health IT Advisory Committee wants ONC to add current and previous addresses, mobile and landline phone numbers, email addresses and the last four digits of a patient’s Social Security number to the dataset, a move that should help match patients to their healthcare records, a key problem area highlighted by interoperability experts when the rules were announced in February.
- HITAC also voted...