EHR Intelligence July 28, 2022
Sarai Rodriguez

ONC plans to implement data standards, APIs, and machine learning (ML) infrastructure to leverage health information exchange data for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) about COVID-19.

ONC has announced a new project to leverage health information exchange (HIE) data to support COVID-19 focused patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) by implementing new data standards and technology.

State and local HIEs aggregate patient EHR data from more than 60 percent of hospitals in the United States. Yet, these extensive datasets have restricted use because of technical and privacy-related barriers, ONC officials stated.

“HIEs routinely collect patient data from a variety of sources and then facilitate the exchange of patient health information with clinicians, public health agencies, and laboratories,” ONC officials Adam Wong and...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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