HIT Infrastructure September 30, 2019
Fred Donovan

The United States needs to develop interoperable IT infrastructure that will facilitate the integration of healthcare and social care, advised a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

To accomplish this goal, the report recommended that the federal government establish a 21st century social care IT infrastructure and identify policies and resources needed for social care organizations and consumers to interact with each other and the healthcare system.

Other report recommendations on IT infrastructure include:

  • The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) should work for the adoption of modern, secure, interoperable IT infrastructure to allow partners to share administrative and other data needed to enable consumers to obtain healthcare...

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