ONC HITAC Report Recommends Areas for Future Work
Healthcare Innovation March 18, 2024
Among the topics that the annual report says ONC should work on are better interoperability with pharmacies, labs and post-acute care providers
In addition to highlighting progress made on several fronts by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the annual report of its Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) also identified interoperability and data standard gaps and specific actions HITAC could take to address them.
The 2023 annual report identified several target areas, including health equity, public health, interoperability, privacy and security, and patient access to information. It then gave examples of activities the federal government has taken to address them, including TEFCA, USCDI, and continued implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking,...