Healthcare Informatics October 26, 2018
National Coordinator for Health IT, Donald Rucker, says that important work on interoperability still remains
Although nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals have already upgraded to 2015 Health IT Certification Criteria, or plan to upgrade, the majority of these organizations are still not engaging in all four components of interoperability, according to a blog post from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
The 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria includes new technical capabilities (such as APIs) that were not required as part of the prior 2014 Edition. ONC’s analysis of 2017 data from the American Hospital Association’s (AHA’s) Information Technology Supplement Survey indeed reveals that 93 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals have already upgraded to...
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