Healthcare IT News March 7, 2018
The National Coordinator explains how ONC is approaching 21st Century Cures, TEFCA, info blocking, EHR usability, the power of smartphones to drive interoperability and more.
LAS VEGAS – In an evening session at HIMSS18 on Tuesday, National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker, MD, sat down for a candid talk about an array of issues related to federal healthcare policy, interoperability, user experience, patient engagement and much more. Here’s a sampling of what he had to say.
On bipartisan agreement about the value of health IT:
There are two areas of focus we at ONC have these days, as we look at the status of electronic health records in the United States: One is usability and provider burden, and the...