Healthcare IT News August 12, 2020
Using $2.5 million from the CARES Act, the agency will give money to as many as five new projects that boost health information exchanges through its new Star HIE program.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants to boost new opportunities to put healthcare data to work via existing state and local health information exchanges – and will be spending $2.5 million earmarked by Congress through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to do so.
WHY IT MATTERS
Through its new Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE) program, ONC aims to “leverage work done by the industry to advance HIE services for the benefit of public...