Healthcare Innovation January 19, 2022
Draft adds data elements in the Health Status, Procedures, Health Insurance, and Patient Demographics data classes
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released the draft of the third version of theUnited States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), a standardized set of health data classes and data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.
It has been a busy week for ONC. A day after publishing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), it released the draft of version 3, which adds data elements in the Health Status, Procedures, Health Insurance, and Patient Demographics data classes.
Last July, ONC released version 2 of USCDI, which added data classes and elements to support electronic exchange of social...