EHR Intelligence February 10, 2021
The ONC Interoperability Standards Advisory will now include COVID-19 and public health emergency sections.
Following stakeholder feedback, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology made several key updates to the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA), highlighted by COVID-19, public health emergency, and admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) notifications to a record locator service.
ISA is leveraged as a coordinated catalog of health IT standards and implementation specifications intended to help providers, health IT developers, and other stakeholders meet their interoperability needs.
“ONC encourages all stakeholders to implement and use the standards and implementation specifications identified in the ISA as applicable to the specific interoperability needs they seek to address,” wrote ONC. “Furthermore, ONC encourages further pilot testing and...