HealthLeaders Media June 16, 2015
The federal government’s chief health information officer is shaping ONC’s interoperability roadmap. It’s a foundational step to achieving goals such as precision medicine. But ONC’s priorities don’t always align with those of healthcare providers.
This week, to understand the future of population health, I turned to Dr. McCoy. Not the guy on the Starship Enterprise. This is the real-life Michael McCoy, MD, chief health information officer for the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
When I first asked McCoy for his thoughts on population health, he brought up a couple of HHS’s big-think current initiatives: precision medicine and semantic interoperability. Here’s a quick primer gleaned from our conversation:
- Precision medicine: McCoy says it takes personalized...
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