Healthcare IT News February 25, 2020
The nine National Health IT Priorities for Research are meant set an agenda that will enable medical research to happen more quickly and effectively, officials say.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has put forward some new plans for better aligning the technology needs of clinicians and medical researchers, listing nine key priorities to better support IT-enabled research breakthroughs.
WHY IT MATTERS
ONC’s National Health IT Priorities for Research: A Policy and Development Agenda was developed in collaboration with federal partners other healthcare stakeholders, incorporating findings from medical literature review, interviews and in-person workshops.
Its goal, according to ONC, is to work toward a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that “supports alignment of the clinical and research ecosystems...