Healthcare Innovation December 1, 2020
David Raths

One-year project with standards development organizations to launch in January

To improve patient-matching efforts, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced that in 2021 it will launch an effort in partnership with standards development organization to develop a unified specification for patient address in health care.

Speaking Dec. 1 at ONC’s Year in Review session about progress with the FHIR standard and application programming interfaces (APIs), Steven Posnak, deputy national coordinator for health IT, said ONC will work in collaboration with HL7, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), and X12, along with the other standards development organizations and members of the Health Standards Collaborative (HSC). The goal of the new...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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