ASTP/ONC April, 2017
Introduction In 2015, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap (the Roadmap). The Roadmap lays out a series of “calls to action” and “commitments” aimed at focusing public and private efforts toward the Roadmap’s 2024 end-state where nationwide interoperability enables a learning health system. The Roadmap identified the importance of measuring different aspects of interoperability to inform how much progress towards achieving an interoperable learning health system. Moving towards a set of uniform and trackable nationwide interoperability measures is essential to demonstrate...