Healthcare DIVE June 20, 2024
The agency head discussed ONC’s accomplishments over the past two decades, improving documentation burden among clinicians and artificial intelligence opportunities.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was born two decades ago, tasked with creating an interoperable health IT infrastructure and shifting the country away from paper medical records.
Much has changed since then. The vast majority of hospitals and physicians now use electronic health records. Nationwide health data exchange under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, went live in December, after years of work.
And now, artificial intelligence-enabled tools — including products that aim to cut down on providers’ administrative tasks — signal more change ahead for the industry. Late last year,...
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