Healthcare Innovation October 8, 2021
United States Core for Data Interoperability extension efforts are starting with CMS, CDC
In July 2021, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released version 2 of the United States Core for Data Interoperability, a standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements. Now ONC has launched an initiative called USCDI+ to support the identification and establishment of domain- or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI.
In a blog post on their website, ONC executives described USCDI+ as a service that ONC will provide to federal partners who have a need to establish, harmonize, and advance the use of interoperable datasets that extend beyond the core data in the...